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].
BERNIE ECCLESTONEI have earned the money and changed the nappies!
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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It’d be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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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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Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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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 suppose it’s knowing when you’ve come up with an idea that works, when you’ve got it right, whatever it is.
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When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
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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 simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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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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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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[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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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’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
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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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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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