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.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEA wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don’t want it built like that. It’s quite embarrassing.
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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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I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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If you say ‘Good Morning’ in America and it’s five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.
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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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Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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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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[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he’d be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.
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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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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 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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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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With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he’s going to do something, he gets on it, does it.
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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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