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"Yeah, I'm motivated. Because first of all, I play high-level sport. I don't want to disappoint my parents, who gave me the opportunity to do it, nor my country, nor my coach, who has been training me for 10 years, nor my staff. I know there are teams that follow me and encourage me. So this is my way of saying thank you. That's where I draw my determination."
"At the moment, no, I'm not yet qualified because you either have to qualify through my direct performances, my performances, or by being well ranked in the rankings. For the moment, I haven't yet had a great performance that will qualify me. And in the rankings, I'm not yet qualified. It would be following my various competitions that will mean that in the rankings, I'll be ranked much higher. So at the moment, no, Odile is not qualified. I'm on the right track in any case to be qualified."
"The Olympic scholarship is always welcome. You know this well, or perhaps less so, but in France, life is much more expensive. This means that the Olympic scholarship doesn't cover all my expenses, but a large part nonetheless. Yes, the Olympic scholarship is important for my preparation, but it's not enough. It's still a significant part."
"Yeah, I think so. You know that at some point in sports, you have to stop even if you don't want to. You have to know how to go through the front door rather than the back door. Afterwards, you have to put the right things in place so that it looks what it should. But I'm not ready to retire yet. As soon as I see that I have to stop, I'll do it. But I'm already"
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.