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"As a coach I am really proud to work for Spurs because the path they are giving to the African and Asian coaches, they have been doing it for ages, and it's brilliant. I respect that and I am fully grateful for that."
"I started to love football in Bouake when I was younger," he explained. "My oldest brother, he loves football, and he was playing for a team on the street close to the community. After that, my other brother Kolo started playing and I followed his path."
"At that time there were so many boys, seven boys, I started to be dedicated because, for me, the ball was my breathing time.""
"In the beginning it was tough because of the culture, the food, the acclimatisation - I needed to adapt"
"Since I arrived there my head just clicked, I knew I needed to adapt. It took me six or seven months, but I do it."
"When players retire from football, some think they should carry on more but for me I was relieved and happy"
"I’ve never been African champion in the 100m, so it’s something I’ve always wanted to accomplish"
"I think it’s consistent, I have no special objective as I’m just working on the first 60m of my 100m for this summer."
"I'm going back to prepare in the United States and I'll come back stronger. This isn't the end of my career."
"We need to set up relay camps because we’ve been getting away… We haven’t been doing no handoffs and no training, nothing. We just kind of come to competition and just kind of wing based on talent."
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.