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"I’m not done. You know what I’m capable of. Count me out if you want to."
"Who am I to tell you how to cope when you’re dealing with the pain or you’re dealing with a struggle that you haven’t experienced before or that you thought you never would have to deal with?"
"Don’t judge me because I am human. I’m you, I just happen to run a little faster."
"It’s just irritating because you take away the abilities, you take away the speed, you take away the talent … and we’re still human"
"I’ve seen the world be my friend. I’ve seen the world turn on me. But at the end of the day, I’ve always been with me."
"It’s always been my time, but now it’s my time to actually do it for myself and the people that feel like me, the people that look like me, and the people that know the truth about themselves as well. I represent those people."
"I’m here to say, ‘I’m not back, I’m better ..."
"I’m next to living legends. It feels remarkable."
"My journey has been a journey!"
"Be more understanding of the fact they [athletes] are still humans."
"I just want the world to know that I’m THAT girl"
"How I show myself forgiveness is honestly by acknowledging it first, acknowledging the situation for what it is, acknowledging my responsibilities in it, and talking about it to the people I feel like it impacted besides myself"
"No matter what you were thinking beforehand, no matter what you got going on, when it’s time to get on that line, nothing changes that. The race not gonna be called back; it’s not going to be postponed. When that gun goes off, it’s about getting down there."
"I stay ready from getting ready. So, I'm always ready."
"I just know, like, if I want to be a better person, I have to practice better things."
"My family is my everything, my everything until the day I’m done."
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.