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"Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock," he said, "but I'll know about it and I'll be happy.""
"We haven't got any use for gamblers around here. You've done your best to ruin baseball, and horse racing, and this is one game that's clean and is gonna stay clean."
"Rock, someday when the team's up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, ask 'em to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, but I'll know about it. I'll be happy."
"Who can say for certain what a man was really born to be? That's God's will. Someday Knute will find his right place in the world, and when he does, whether it be science or not, I have a feeling it will be the one he was meant to do."
"Newsreel Announcer: [Newsreel film of Notre Dame using the backfield shift] What is this new miracle that Rockne has wrought? This bolt of Irish lightning, that strikes from all sides with such blinding speed and fury! A 'shift' they call it. Yes, but Heisman at Georgia Tech also has a shift, so has Tad Jones at Yale. But theirs are simple tunes compared to Rockne's symphony! For this shift is music, the music of a master's hand! Knute Rockne, whose ingenious brain perfected the forward pass, has brought a great new thrill to football and its millions of followers!"
"A Lot Of The Things That Made America Great Came From This Man!"
"HE TAUGHT HIS TEAMS THE WAY TO WIN...AND AMERICA THE WAY TO LIVE!"
"Pat O'Brien - Knute Rockne"
"Gale Page - Bonnie Skiles Rockne"
"Ronald Reagan - George Gipp"
"Donald Crisp - Father John Cavanaugh"
"Albert Bassermann - Father Julius Nieuwland"
"John Litel - Committee Chairman"
"Henry O'Neill - Doctor"
"Owen Davis Jr. - Gus Dorais"
"John Qualen - Lars Knutson Rockne"
"Dorothy Tree - Martha Rockne"
"Johnny Sheffield - Knute, age 7"
"Howard Jones - Himself"
"Glenn "Pop" Warner - Himself"
"Alonzo Stagg - Himself"
"William "Bill" Spaulding - Himself"
"Kane Richmond - Elmer Layden"
"William Marshall - Don Miller"
"William Byrne - Jim Crowley"
"Nick Lukats - Harry Stuhldreher"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.