Ilie Quotes

#1. Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis ... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

Rod Laver

#2. What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at?

Malcolm Forbes

#3. My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

Ilie Nastase

#4. You could teach an animal to learn your language, but you'd be missing the point. The point was to learn its language. Only then would you understand.

Ilie Ruby

#5. I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

Ilie Nastase

#6. Congress meets tomorrow morning. Let us all pray: Oh Lord, give us strength to bear that which is about to be inflicted upon us. Be merciful with them, oh Lord, for they know not what they're doing. Amen.

Will Rogers

#7. I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

Ilie Nastase

#8. She said you had to know that which could save you, for it could probably also kill you.

Ilie Ruby

#9. If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Ilie Nastase

#10. Love isn't tested by how good it makes you feel. It's tested by whether you are brave enough to feel every part of it.

Ilie Ruby

#11. As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

Ilie Nastase

#12. One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

Ilie Nastase

#13. You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

Alan Rickman

#14. If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated.

Rodney Brooks

#15. Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

Ilie Nastase

#16. Well, what was I to do? For the well-bred gentleman there was clearly only one recourse. I fucked him.

Mark Gatiss

#17. Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that's a great compliment for us.

Ilie Nastase

#18. My personal style is relaxed.

Narciso Rodriguez

#19. Whoever stole it is spending less money than my wife.

Ilie Nastase

#20. Parents often yell and nag, instead of allowing their children to reap the natural consequences of their behavior. Parenting with love and limits, with warmth and consequences, produces confident children who have a sense of control over their lives.

Henry Cloud