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"Spending time with loved ones. Time is such a precious thing."
"I expect standards from the group, I see myself as the driver, because I am so competitive, you have to keep pushing to be better year in, year out."
"We are not robots. We need time to recover, to perform for the fans."
"You can’t be predictable, having the freedom to recognise and assess different options rather than being robots and sticking to strict plans is super important in our development."
"The memory gives you motivation and that little bit of fire inside when you need it."
"Just seeing smiles on people's faces and cheering, whether it be a tackle, a goal, the end or the start of the game. As a player, what more could you wish for?"
"That's why the fans are vital to us. That's why it's important after the games to embrace them and to get that connection because we need them in every game."
"It’s important for young girls to see the sport succeeding. They can actually say, ‘I’m gonna be a pro-footballer.’"
"I went through school with people thinking negatively of me for playing football with the boys. I wasn’t scared to be different."
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.