I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood – and thank God this is not my job – but also the team principals should be more prominent.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEYou’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.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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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’m a dealer. That’s exactly right. I’m a used car dealer.
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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 have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he’d be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.
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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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I think in the end officials in each country’s judicial system will do what they believe is right because if they do something bad to somebody it’s on their conscience for the rest of their lives.
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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 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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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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It’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.
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Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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It’s not as easy as that… it’s disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.
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Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them.
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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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