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"That’s actually what I want to be, the best striker in the world."
"Because I don't score for me, I score for the team, I score for my fans, I score my family, and my team to win at the end of the day."
"Football is a team sport, and I would not have achieved this without the incredible support of my coaches, teammates and family."
"Being nominated motivates me to push even harder, not just for myself but for my teammates and everyone who supports me. This nomination also inspires other kids to believe in themselves and work hard to achieve their dreams."
"I’m still the same humble Nthabiseng I was before. But definitely my life has changed a lot."
"A lot of these girls are discouraged. They have to choose between going to school and work or playing football."
"My advice to them is to work hard. Keep on pushing. Because success does not come without hard work."
"I know that it’s important to be educated, because football is a very short career."
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.