I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEYou need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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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 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’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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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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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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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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If you say ‘Good Morning’ in America and it’s five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.
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I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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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’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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You need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.
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I think we don’t need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don’t speak the same language, don’t eat the same food. There’s a bit of difference between, Holland, if you like, and Italy.
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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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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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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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