I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEUnder the engine cover, no one cares what’s in there. Nobody cares.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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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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[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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Actually I think I have forgotten how it was back then. Or probably not – I didn’t qualify. There were only 16 cars in the race.
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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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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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 was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.
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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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Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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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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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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You can’t make decisions if there are no charges or issues to deal with. So it’s quite normal to wait until there is some reason to react.
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I’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
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It’d be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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