[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.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEI won’t be threatened or intimidated by anyone and I’ve always been prepared to do what is necessary to defend my interests.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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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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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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Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.
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It’d be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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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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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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You might have asked [about skill] of an artist or a musician or whatever… but with me it just happens.
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[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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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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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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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 have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn’t justified in some countries.
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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.
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I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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