Ilie Quotes & Sayings

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything. — Ilie Nastase

Every comrade must be brought to understand that the supreme test of the words and deeds of a Communist is whether they conform with the highest interests and enjoy the support of the overwhelming majority of the people. — Mao Zedong

We must get out of materialism. — Swami Vivekananda

Tell me you won't go, tell me you'll stay forever, tell me you love me. — C.J. Archer

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself. — Patrick Marber

So I want to say that of all the people I have known, you are the only person I regret leaving behind. — Ayn Rand

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

Its amazing that Lou Ferrigno can talk with fifty pounds of cracker in his mouth. — Bobby Heenan

Who can say what they'd have done in her situation. She's stronger than she knows. I tried to tell her that every day, too."
"Was that the truth?" Grant asks.
Joseph smiles. "You ever see a tree that's dying, it's nothing but a bunch of dried out branches? You can talk to this tree, tell it all about how its leaves are growing green and healthy. Then you sit back and watch how it changes. — Ilie Ruby

Whoever stole it is spending less money than my wife. — Ilie Nastase

The tiger is humbled by memories of prey. — Steven Erikson

She said you had to know that which could save you, for it could probably also kill you. — Ilie Ruby

Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end. — Swami Vivekananda

I will always have a child in me. That is what Pete [Jackson] has got, what a lot of the directors I have worked with have. It is about knowing how to have fun and that is something I always want to hold on to. — Saoirse Ronan

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge. — Ilie Nastase

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

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

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

What shall we think of a government to which all the truly brave and just men in the land are enemies, standing between it and those whom it oppresses? A government that pretends to be Christian and crucifies a million Christs every day! — Henry David Thoreau

That's the reality, and you can't overlook it. Rod can be a free agent, but we don't want get ahead of ourselves. Rod is the starter now and at some point we'll address that. Rod's got the job and the experience and you hope Gerald learns from him. — Jon Daniels

Criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else's luck. The luck of most people is strictly non-transferrable. But a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to a client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell. — William S. Burroughs

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

It is good insofar as it is not evil. — Franz Grillparzer

We all know what we had, don't we? We just never thought we could lose it. — Tanya Byrne

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

I must survive. I have promises to keep. — Michael Morpurgo

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything. — Ilie Nastase

What advertising dum-dum signed up Ilie Nastase to sell a resort?! Who'd want to go where he's at? — Malcolm Forbes

We spent afternoons kicking around in the sand, picking through the seaweed for shells, making headdresses of washed-up fishing ropes and hats from Styrofoam cups. Beach rats, we were called.

We stopped brushing our hair, and it hung in tangles spun by the salt air. We sprayed Sun-In across our heads and let it turn our hair orange in patches. Our skin peeled, and we didn't much care.

We woke up to the feel of sand in our sheets. We covered ourselves in baby oil and iodine and let the sun bake our skin. We smelled like Love's Baby Soft perfume, like summer all year long. We were tanned, with freckles across our noses. — Ilie Ruby

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

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