Quotes by Romanian authors
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
Ilie Nastase
Romanian tennis player
I am not a perfect 10 anymore. I can only try my best.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
Gymnastics was my way to travelling the world.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
You should also appreciate the goodness around you, and surround yourself with positive people.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions.
Mircea Eliade
Romanian historian of religion
My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.
Emil Ferris
Romanian philosopher
I think a lot of people don't actually know me. They think, 'She's like this,' or, 'She's like that.' They say I have no emotions - I do, but you couldn't see them then. I had to keep them inside.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.
Bela Karolyi
American-Hungarian-Romanian coach
I work out every day, but my idea is to make something short. I work out a maximum half hour. I only do like 20 minutes of cardio, and I do some stretching and some light weights, and I'm out of there.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel.
Emil Ferris
Romanian philosopher
I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
Everything I do today is because of what I did when I was 14.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
What can you know about life at 14? I have learned a lot since, but you learn slowly. You get hit by many things and try to make sense of it.
Nadia Comaneci
Romanian gymnast
What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.
Bela Karolyi
American-Hungarian-Romanian coach
The rest of the world laughed at American gymnastics before I came.
Bela Karolyi
American-Hungarian-Romanian coach
Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.
Paul Celan
Romanian Poet
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