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"Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead!"
"He's getting closer."
"He is about as big as Clive Churchill was when he played and he owns an ugly dog."
"I realised fairly early that the 'wisdom of the ages' - whether from 3000 years ago or yesterday - often was simply and perfectly adaptable to the context of the football arena, and immensely valuable. From my regular morning habit of reading, I would write down any wise, pragmatic and smart quotes and ideas that struck me, and that I felt could be of use in coaching."
"I think he must have an egg-timer - every four minutes, he blows the whistle."
"In football, if you are standing still, you're going backwards fast."
"Kick it to the seagulls."
"Played strong, done good."
"Talent is secondary to whether players are confident."
"That guy is so quick, he can switch off the light and get into bed before the room is dark."
"The use of video evidence is not always conclusive, but it sure beats the memory bank of most witnesses."
"There is nothing in the contract that says a football coach has to be sane or a good loser."
"There's always free cheese in a mousetrap."
"They'd boo Santa Claus, this mob."
"They all seem to limp a little extra when they are replaced."
"Waiting for Cronulla to win a premiership is like leaving the porch lamp on for Harold Holt."
"The game today is entirely different to when I played. But I still think it's pretty smart. Maybe the biggest change lies in the simple fact that if you're a bit slow today, mentally or physically, you're not going to survive."
"To win a championship, you've got to have a nucleus of five or six real tough, hard competitors. To win anything, the team's got to think tough and that infiltrates into the individual. You've got to have a tough leader."
"The big test in football is how a captain leads under conditions of adversity."
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.