I believe when you say you’re going to start a race at 2 p.m. then you should stick to that and start the race at 2 p.m. There’s no maybe, could be or should be. You start the race on time. It’s very simple.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEWhen there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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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.
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Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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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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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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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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[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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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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I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.
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When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
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I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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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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It’s not as easy as that… it’s disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.
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