Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
BERNIE ECCLESTONEAnyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever… but with me it just happens.
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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 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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I’d rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract – perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it – in a way to suit you.
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I think we don’t need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don’t speak the same language, don’t eat the same food. There’s a bit of difference between, Holland, if you like, and Italy.
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I am happy that we have somebody like Lewis [Hamilton]. I also couldn’t be like Lewis. I don’t like gold jewelry!
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I’d rather get to the 70-year-old guy who’s got plenty of cash.
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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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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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I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn’t get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.
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A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.
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Our sport is ruled whether it’s for good and bad, or whatever, for technical things. There’s lots of teams out there that could and should have done better if they’d have had technical things. I suppose in the end that basically revolves around how much money they’re gonna get.
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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn’t justified in some countries.
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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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I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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If 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.
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I think I would find it easier to talk with Nico [Rosenberg] than Lewis [Hamilton], as Lewis is into things that are very distant to me.
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Under the engine cover, no one cares what’s in there. Nobody cares.
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You need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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I believe when you say you’re going to start a race at 2 p.m. then you should stick to that and start the race at 2 p.m. There’s no maybe, could be or should be. You start the race on time. It’s very simple.
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I suppose it’s knowing when you’ve come up with an idea that works, when you’ve got it right, whatever it is.
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My daughters have strong personalities. I’m close to them but they don’t really need me to advise them on how to manage their lives and they don’t ask me to do that.
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Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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Before they go to the race, people want to think four or five guys could win, but now… Normally you’d say, “One of those two, and I think it’s going to be Lewis [Hamiltom],” because that’s what had been proved up to now – thank God that Nico [Rosberg] has won some races.
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