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.
BERNIE ECCLESTONETwo races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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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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A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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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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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 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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Each new deal is another opportunity.
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Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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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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With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he’s going to do something, he gets on it, does it.
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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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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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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 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.
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I’d rather get to the 70-year-old guy who’s got plenty of cash.
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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 have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
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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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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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You need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.
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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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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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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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