I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEActually 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.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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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 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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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 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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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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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 not as easy as that… it’s disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.
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[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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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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Under the engine cover, no one cares what’s in there. Nobody cares.
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Each new deal is another opportunity.
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You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
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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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[When I’ll be old I see myself] as a world champion, on a big farm with an Italian-style, big family with a whole bunch of grandchildren. And the foundations for that I have already laid!
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People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: ‘We’ll come to Silverstone and have a look how it’s done’, and I tell them to stay away.
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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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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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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 have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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I think the way I do things would be difficult to teach somebody to do. They need to get another good used car dealer. That’s what they need. Find a good car dealer.
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I’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
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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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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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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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