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.
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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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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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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Lewis [Hamilton] is a hero in the UK. The British love Formula One. Sebastian (Vettel) is also not doing much for F1. People hardly recognize him on the street.
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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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Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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Under the engine cover, no one cares what’s in there. Nobody cares.
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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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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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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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I am happy that we have somebody like Lewis [Hamilton]. I also couldn’t be like Lewis. I don’t like gold jewelry!
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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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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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