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"You know, everyone thinks we got this broken down horse and fixed him, but we didn't. He fixed us. Every one of us. And I guess in a way, we fixed each other, too."
"Every horse is good for somethin'."
"You don't throw a whole life away just 'cause he's banged up a little bit."
"[joking to crowd gathered at a whistle-stop] Our horse is too small. Our jockey's too big. Our trainer's too old. And I'm too dumb to know the difference."
"Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack up and go home or keep fighting."
"The first time he saw Seabiscuit, the colt was walking through the fog at five in the morning. Smith would say later that the horse looked right through him, as if to say, "What the hell are you looking at? Who do you think you are?" He was a small horse, barely fifteen hands. He was hurting, too. There was a limp in his walk, a wheezing when he breathed. Smith didn't pay attention to that, he was looking the horse in the eye."
"For the first time in a long time someone cared. For the first time in a long time you are not Alone."
"A long shot becomes a legend."
"The hopes of a nation rode on a long shot."
"The true story of a long shot who became a legend."
"Tobey Maguire - John "Red" Pollard"
"Jeff Bridges - Charles S. Howard"
"Chris Cooper - Tom Smith"
"William H. Macy - Tick Tock McGlaughlin"
"Elizabeth Banks - Marcela Zabala Howard"
"Gary L. Stevens - George Woolf"
"Eddie Jones - Samuel D. Riddle"
"David McCullough - Narrator"
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.