Ilie Nastase Quotes
I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.
Nastase, Ilie. Mr Nastase: The Autobiography. HarperCollins, 2004.
As the United States showed increasing interest in joining the European theatre, Hitler turned to Japan even though an alliance with Japan seemed to betray Nazi nationalist/racist doctrine.
When he was in Italy during World War I, the congressman "promised" the Italians that they would regain control of the port of Fiume after the war. It was not to be and he was criticized for promising too much:
Ilie Theodoriu Năstase is a Romanian former world No. 1 professional tennis player, and one of the world's top players of the 1970s. He was ranked world No. 1 from 23 August 1973 to 2 June 1974. Năstase is one of the 10 players in history who have won more than 100 ATP professional titles (64 singles and 45 in doubles). He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991. Năstase won seven Grand Slam titles: two in singles, three in men's doubles and two in mixed doubles. He also won four Masters Grand Prix year-end championship titles and seven Grand Prix Super Series titles (1970–73), the precursors to the current Masters 1000. He was the first professional sports figure to sign an endorsement contract with Nike in 1972. Năstase wrote several novels in French in the 1980s.
