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NadiaComaneci.com |
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An unofficial fan site. |
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Quotes by and about Nadia |
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"(Chase) Daniel...embodies the determination and fight-to-the-end spirit Nebraska likely will need in 2007 as it marches through a particularly rugged schedule, one with a Nadia Comaneci-esque degree of difficulty that will necessitate extreme vigor and focus on a weekly basis." Steven Sipple, Journal Star, Nebraska. May 06, 2007 "If it's the one that wilted in the second half in San Diego and bent more than Nadia Comaneci in the final two periods in the Georgia Dome, the Steelers might have a difficult time even getting past the Raiders." Gerry Dulac, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 28, 2006, describing Pittsburg's split personality. Former Olympic gymnasts Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner welcomed their son, Dylan, into the world... The delivery had a few minor glitches, but the infant was able to stick the landing, earning 10s from everyone but the French judge. -- TODD CAMP AND ROBERT PHILPOT Fort Worth, Texas Star-Telegram, June 2006. "Gymnastics is not a sport because Romanians are good at it." George Carlin, comedian. "I think Nadia's--and Nelli Kim's--perfect tens will ruin the sport. They imply not only that they can never improve but also that no one will ever perform better than they did. The sport may become stultified. It certainly has been cheapened." ABC Sports Producer Roone Arledge, October 1976 Playboy interview, shows appalling lack of knowledge of gymnastic scoring rules. And don't think for a minute that Nadia is still the little girl we first knew at Montreal in 1976. Let's just say that Nadia, who turns 42 on Nov. 12 (Bart is 45), turned a lot of heads at the Marriott." Thom Smith, Palm Beach Post Columnist, Tuesday, October 21, 2003, on an appearance by Nadia and Bart at a fundraiser for The Children's Place at Home Safe, Delray, Florida. "My car went end over end 25 times, like Nadia Comaneci, and flew apart like there was a bomb inside." NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace in the February, 2002 magazine, Maxim. "I have a box of melba toast rounds before me, which has (how did that happen?) promotional pictures of Nadia Comaneci scattered on the back panel. Also: Nadia Comaneci (how did that happen?) is now older." Goob.com Diet Diary, April 10, 2002 "Consider not being Nadia Comaneci," Leeann Carey, Yoga teacher (2000), suggestion to newbies not to overdo themselves. "What followed his appeal for fairness was a wave of reporting that bent over backward like Nadia Comaneci to give Kincaid-Chauncey the benefit of the doubt." J.L. Smith, Las Vegas Revue Journal, May 23, 2003. "I want to go home." Nadia Comaneci (14), when asked by reporters in Montreal what her greatest wish was. "We like to think that every member of these Personals is a supermodel citizen — polite to a fault, hotter than Georgia asphalt, and more limber than Nadia Comaneci." Boston.com's Personals and about 30 other such sites. "And it's a scientific fact that the only way to keep a man nowadays is to be Nadia Comaneci in the sack." Jennifer Jenkins-Goldman, "Mercury for Her" Oct. 31, 2001 "Q: In 1989, this Romanian Olympic gymnastic hero fled to Hungary. She eventually came to the U.S. What was her name?" IMPOSSIBLE TRIVIA, 11/29/01 (no cheating now!) "I feel a bond with Minnesota Fats and Nadia Comaneci." Jeremy Saum, on getting a workout rock climbing while loaded down with gear, 2001. "Nadia Comaneci proved to be quite compelling. The Romanian waif of games past is a cool chick." Russell Brown, NZ Now Net, on watching the Sydney Games, September 22, 2000. "And yes, she is a regular gymnast - there have been times when I've thought I should've named her Nadia - after Nadia Comaneci!" Cathy Friedmann about her cat (message board) October, 2000 "At 45 still cuts a striking figure" DJ Yap, Inquirer (Philippines), 06/25/2007 "When you're used to seeing somebody on television, they're bound to look a little different in person. Those two? They look exactly the way you'd think they would...only much tinier." Dave Fisch 1/12/07, "Men of Mortuaries" calendar model on meeting Nadia and Bart. "I love my dental assistant. She's Romanian but sounds sort of French to my American ear. Like Nadia Comaneci." Chris Erskine, LA Times, 7/19/00 "The difference between the movement of an ordinary pleasure horse and one well-schooled in dressage is the difference between a somersault done by you and one performed by Nadia Comaneci." Judy Wells, Florida Times Union, 9/12/99. Nadia Comaneci, author of the first perfect 10.0 score in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, heard just enough to say, "Bart, don't tell me you're talking about racing again?!" And she walked away. -- CHUCK CURLEY, Evening Sun Sports Editor when conversation with Bart Conner turned to racing. Article 10/12/2006. “Goddess of Montreal”, Nine-O'clock Online, November 2004. As a colourful detail it is worth noting that the head of the American diplomacy will be greeted by the former great gymnast Nadia Comaneci - as “The New York Times” writes - a personality well-known around the world and, also, a real bridge connecting Romania (the country of origin) and the USA (the country of adoption). Nine-O'clock Online, on the USA diplomatic delegation to Romania, 12/5/2005. "Not only did he (Obafemi Martins) score a wonderful third goal he somehow upstaged it with a sequence of somersaults which would have left Nadia Comaneci red-faced." UEFA.com, November 24, 2003 "Nadia Comaneci: If tears could build a stairway, and heartache make a lane, we'd walk the path to Heaven, and bring you back again. We'll never forget you, Nadia. We'll love you forever. Until we meet again... Mama and Daddy" Tribute to beloved pet @ Petloss.com, 09/17/02. No indication for type of pet. "I was brought up around horses, and one of the first foals my parents trained, called Comaneci, turned out to be rather good." Rishi Persad, BBC sports commentator. August 13, 2003 "For each I'm gonna reach and teach with the speech; If you riff, I'ma flip like Nadia Comaneci." lyrics from "The One" by Chubb Rock. "No one has had the power, perfection, grace, charisma, charm, and mystery that Nadia still has." posted by Jesús Garza Ramos 1/18/01 at RateItAll.com. "I'll still never forgive Time for thinking Nadia Comaneci was more important that the first pictures from the surface of Mars. (Even though I did have a bit of a crush on her at the time....)" posted by Ashitaka on Mars discussion board "I like the (Indianapolis) Colts, too. We have something in common. We both defected in the middle of the night. Colts, 27-16." -- Nadia Comaneci, predicting the outcome of NFL games in the October 4, 2002 edition of USA Today. Colts beat the Cincinnati Bengals 28-21. "I just remember as a kid even though I never was a gymnast or anything, I was so impacted by Nadia Comaneci her seven perfect 10's. I can remember it like it was yesterday. I remember watching that and saying to myself as a young kid that I want to be part of the Olympics, not knowing what I could possibly do to go to the Olympics." Michigan State University's Women's Basketball Coach Joanne P. McCallie, January 11, /2002 "Alaska, My home. Alaska, My State; I'm livin' like a penguin inside a crate; Don¹t wanna bother ya; Don't wanna preach; but we got more ice than Nadia Coh Man Each" By Chuck Jones, spoofing Alaskan state song "Oh, yes, and she's a veteran at smiling for the crowd and waving. This looks like one more routine she'll be able to stick." Brad Rock, "He’s what Nadia Comaneci would look like if Nadia Comaneci went on an all-Twinkie diet for about five years." By Ben Smith, The Journal Gazette, Ft. Wayne, Texas, on NFL Draft favorite Walter Thomas. Apr. 2007. "Think Inspector Clouseau with the coordination of Nadia Comaneci" John R. MacArthur's description for Justin Case, an acrobatic cyclist. Feb. 2007 "Like Bush or not, politically he has stuck to his agenda year after year....unlike Gore who does more flips than Nadia Comaneci." an00nie (message board) October, 2000 The future of pitter-patter of little feet may be on a balance beam ... "Yeah, Nadia, you have your choice -- The 2000 Olympics or having a baby. '' Bart kidding Nadia as she performs at a publicity appearance in Payallup, Washington. Miami Herald, 10/7/97 ``The gymnasts who say he is being too tough, their dreams are a little too big for their bodies.`` Nadia, on her former mentor, gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi, 1992. On Nadia's marriage to Bart Conner: "This'll be the most interesting honeymoon in history. They've asked the hotel for a spotter." Argus Hamilton, 1996 "Man, that's a lot of flexibility, isn't it? I mean, Nadia Comaneci wasn't that flexible." Tony Kornheiser, Washington Post Columnist, on a bid for the Redskins $120 million under the asking price. 1/19/99 "A 14-year-old Romanian girl who doesn't speak English. It's like interviewing Rin Tin Tin." Jim Murray, sports writer, in 1976, not knowinging Nadia does speak English... when she wants to. "I am not dead." Nadia, putting to rest rumors of her demise from the Romanian press, 1995 "In an age when earned-run averages resemble Nadia Comaneci's scores on the uneven bars..." Sporting News opening line on Baseball pitching, 07/00 "I love Greece. Every time I visit it feels like coming home.” Nadia to Macedonian Press Agency, June 20, 2003. "Collectively, they have the mental dexterity of Albert Einstein, flawlessly riffing off each other like the smartest of jazz musicians, and the physical dexterity of Nadia Comaneci." Conner Berry (no relation to webmaster), CapeWeek reviewer of three comedic actors. July 5, 2003 "If you want to get an interception, I can do that...that's football. All that other stuff is just gymnastics. I'm not Nadia Comaneci." Eugene Robinson, Atlanta Falcons, 1/99 ``So was Nadia Comaneci.'' Los Angeles Lakers coach Del Harris, on critics who said his team was too young, 12/97 "I work on a certain move constantly; then, finally, it doesn't seem so risky to me. The move stays dangerous and looks dangerous to my foes, but not to me. Hard work has made it easy. That's my secret. That's why I win." -- Nadia Comaneci On Catherine Zeta-Jones in "Entrapment." "She swims in tight wet suits..., writhes, wriggles and high-steps her way through a latticework of security lasers and does a back flip off a beam that would make Nadia Comaneci proud." AP review, 1999 "Your child may not grow up to be another Nadia Comaneci, but all babies are gymnasts in the womb." Michele Bitoun Blecher, On Health Network, 2000. "Too many women are obsessed with their weight. The images we see everyday on TV and in magazines send us the message that every woman should look like a model." N. Comaneci, Girlscouts.org "This requires a congressional candidate to do a balancing act that would make Nadia Comaneci proud." Robert G. Beckel, LA Times April 4, 2000 |