With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he’s going to do something, he gets on it, does it.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEYou have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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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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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 have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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My dad always took to his heels when a nappy change was necessary. I am so much looking forward to our child. It is such a wonderfully exciting time right now.
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When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
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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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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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I’ve never told anybody this, so I don’t know if maybe you shouldn’t print it, but I’ve made plans. I’m only going to continue doing this for another 25 years.
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I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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It’d be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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Actually I think I have forgotten how it was back then. Or probably not – I didn’t qualify. There were only 16 cars in the race.
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Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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I was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.
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As I small child and hearing all the stories about him I, of course, looked up to him as some kind of miracle. Then I got to eight years old and suddenly I was taller than [Bernie Ecclestone].
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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 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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[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.
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I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.
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It’s the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.
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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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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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You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever… but with me it just happens.
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I won’t be threatened or intimidated by anyone and I’ve always been prepared to do what is necessary to defend my interests.
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