"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
Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year.
No comments:
Post a Comment