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"The most important thing to remember is: to protect your quarterback - ME!"
"You know what my problem has been all my life? I've always had my shit together. Always. My problem's been I couldn't lift it."
"Alright men, now here's the play we're gonna use. I don't think the guards know this formation. It's called 'incidental punishment after the ball is blown dead.' Remember, any man you tackle gets an elbow, knee, or kick in the mouth."
"First Down...And Ten Years To Go."
"It's Survival of the Fiercest and Funniest"
"Burt Reynolds - Paul "Wrecking" Crewe"
"Eddie Albert - Warden Hazen"
"Ed Lauter - Captain Knauer"
"Michael Conrad - Nate Scarboro"
"James Hampton - Caretaker"
"Harry Caesar - Granville"
"John Steadman - Pop"
"Charles Tyner - Unger"
"Mike Henry - Rassmeusen"
"Jim Nicholson - Ice Man"
"Bernadette Peters - Warden's Secretary"
"Joe Kapp - Walking Boss"
"Richard Kiel - Samson"
"Robert Tessier - Connie Shokner"
"Ray Nitschke - Bogdanski"
"George A. Jones - Big George"
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.