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.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEI was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
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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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Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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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 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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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 have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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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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If you say ‘Good Morning’ in America and it’s five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit.
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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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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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If I feel like something’s gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.
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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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I think in the end officials in each country’s judicial system will do what they believe is right because if they do something bad to somebody it’s on their conscience for the rest of their lives.
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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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