I never neglected my daughters – quite the opposite – but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEAs 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].
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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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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I’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
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I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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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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Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he’s going to do something, he gets on it, does it.
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You’re born with certain gifts and you use them as best you can in life. You begin to learn and recognize that you have certain skills and aptitudes that you apply and use them to carry you forward.
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I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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Under the engine cover, no one cares what’s in there. Nobody cares.
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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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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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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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If somebody says, “You like putting out fires,” and I say, “It’s not a case of liking it, but I do put them out, and if there aren’t fires left I make them, so I can put them out.” It’s what we do.
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