I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEI never neglected my daughters – quite the opposite – but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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I’d rather get to the 70-year-old guy who’s got plenty of cash.
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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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If I feel like something’s gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.
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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 need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.
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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’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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I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.
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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 can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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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 might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever… but with me it just happens.
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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 earned the money and changed the nappies!
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