I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood – and thank God this is not my job – but also the team principals should be more prominent.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEIf we didn’t have Nico [Rosberg] and Lewis [Hamilton] in those cars – there’s one or two guys down the field who in those cars would have delivered the same.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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If you’re going to take the attitude, I don’t think it will work, you will never do anything.
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[Donald] Trump, I think, is the sort of guy that if he maybe thought he’d made a little bit of a mistake, would find a way out, he wouldn’t want to say, “Well, that’s what I’ve done and I’m sticking to it, and I don’t give a damn.” Which is what the other people in America would be like.
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I never neglected my daughters – quite the opposite – but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.
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Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street.
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If somebody says, “You like putting out fires,” and I say, “It’s not a case of liking it, but I do put them out, and if there aren’t fires left I make them, so I can put them out.” It’s what we do.
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Forget what others whisper in your ears. Most of that is pure rubbish that obstructs the view to what really is important. Always make your own decisions. That is what makes us human.
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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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It’d be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.
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You can’t compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I’m not really nostalgic about the past.
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I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.
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But when it comes to F1 I am a huge Lewis [Hamilton] fan because he is a super promoter of the sport. From a pure business aspect – sorry Nico if I have to say this – you are not so good for my business.
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Don’t forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.
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A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.
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