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"I’m really excited to learn more rather than just focus on who is going to run and are they going to win or not."
"Maybe I’m searching for some very hard or stressful things. I don’t know. Maybe for me to stay in this sport I have to find out what is possible or impossible?"
"Running teaches you patience, and I didn't want to give up. After all, if you don't give up, you just continue."
"I think learning to take something difficult in your stride is something life teaches you."
"So, when I feel like I want to give up or cry, I don’t. And the outcome is much more beautiful."
"I don't challenge myself to be better than the next person, rather better than myself. I think everyone should compete with themselves."
"Challenging yourself is hard work, but it's okay to be scared, have doubts and to be worried. Just don’t run away and quit."
"The real race begins when the pain starts."
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.