I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEIf 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.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.
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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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I’d rather get to the 70-year-old guy who’s got plenty of cash.
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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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Under the engine cover, no one cares what’s in there. Nobody cares.
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If somebody says, “You like putting out fires,” and I say, “It’s not a case of liking it, but I do put them out, and if there aren’t fires left I make them, so I can put them out.” It’s what we do.
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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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I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.
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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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You’re born with certain gifts and you use them as best you can in life. You begin to learn and recognize that you have certain skills and aptitudes that you apply and use them to carry you forward.
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Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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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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With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he’s going to do something, he gets on it, does it.
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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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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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