You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEIt’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.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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I never neglected my daughters – quite the opposite – but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.
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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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Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.
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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 simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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I’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
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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 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 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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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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When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don’t want it built like that. It’s quite embarrassing.
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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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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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A wise man who was always helpful to me: Mr (Enzo) Ferrari. He always supported me.
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