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"Football is about feeling good."
"Rome wasn't built in a day, everything takes time."
"No tree grows in heaven."
"To be able to want to improve and constantly learn lessons takes a degree of humility. Still, the whole point of following whatever path in life we choose to is because we feel confident in doing that."
"It's a fine balance between being humble and quietly confident, believing in yourself enough."
"The secret is to be confident enough to trust yourself all the time but also humble enough to work hard."
"Sometimes, a cup competition can hide the fact that you’re still struggling."
"I don't think anyone can perform at their best level if they are unhappy. This is not playing Football Manager on the computer. We are dealing with human beings."
"Sometimes there are players who you have to praise and cajole but there are other players who need stick more than praise because they can get complacent and lose their concentration."
"I'm quite strong and strict on discipline and fitness because it doesn't cost anything to be the fittest version of yourself."
"To work hard costs absolutely nothing."
"Whatever little decision you make has a consequence on the next."
"I’d rather be an optimist and be wrong than be a pessimist and be right."
"Yeah, what a night. That’s probably the first night that these boys experienced what Man United is really about."
"Pressure is a privilege."
"I’m one of them who looks back at the lows more than the highs."
"I am a coach who likes to win despite things, not because of them."
"I’m a people-person; I use the human capital around me."
"It’s not just about being a nice guy, we need to set the standards higher."
"To understand the people, you need to know the history."
"People can resist change at times, but change is important if you want to go forward."
"Everyone knows you need continuity and patience to get success, but not too many get it."
"The margins between winning and losing in football are so close. It is better to be lucky than good sometimes."
"There's maybe a one or two percent chance, but there is a chance. That's the thing."
"This whole project is about creating a culture. Sky's the limit."
"I am ready, born ready. Always."
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.