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"Some mistakes I guess we never stop paying for."
"[after his hand-made bat breaks] Pick me out a winner Bobby."
"People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!"
"I wanted to win that pennant worse than I wanted any goddamned thing in my life. You'd think I could just this once, wouldn't you? I didn't care nothing about the Series. Win or lose, I would have been satisfied."
"You've got a gift Roy... but it's not enough - you've got to develop yourself. If you rely too much on your own gift... then... you'll fail."
"The best there was!"
"Boyhood dreams, a bat made from a tree struck by lightning and most importantly, a never-ending passion for the game."
"He lived for a dream that wouldn't die."
"From an age of innocence comes a hero for today."
"Robert Redford - Roy Hobbs"
"Glenn Close - Iris Gaines"
"Michael Madsen - Bartholomew 'Bump' Bailey"
"Kim Basinger - Memo Paris"
"Wilford Brimley - Pop Fisher"
"Barbara Hershey - Harriet Bird"
"Robert Prosky - The Judge"
"Richard Farnsworth - Red Blow"
"Joe Don Baker - The Whammer"
"Robert Duvall - Max Mercy"
"Darren McGavin - Gus Sands"
"Alan Fudge - Ed Hobbs"
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.