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I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.

Bernie Ecclestone

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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Long Race West
I am happy that we have somebody like Lewis [Hamilton]. I also couldn’t be like Lewis. I don’t like gold jewelry!
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Gold Hamilton Jewelry
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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Come Ideas Knowing Up
I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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Game Scrapped Sports Together
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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Needed Regret Sports
I was delighted with Baku. People said I was completely mad; I was so happy when it all turned out all right.
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Mad People Said
It’d be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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Good Trump World
You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
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Luck Opponents Unlucky
When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
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Atmosphere Money More Stakes
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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Believe Race Simple
I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.
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Confidence Judicial System
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.
BERNIE ECCLESTONE

Made Print Years
You need to have proper management if you’re going to move forward.
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Management Moving Needs
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.
BERNIE ECCLESTONE

Looks People Track
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.
BERNIE ECCLESTONE

Football Sports Writing
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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Daughter Personality Strong
Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
BERNIE ECCLESTONE

Shirts Street Vettel
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.
BERNIE ECCLESTONE

Car Race Thinking
Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
BERNIE ECCLESTONE

Country Race Two
[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 ECCLESTONE

America Mistake Thinking
Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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Famous Limelight Want
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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Bad Climate Era Past Point Sports
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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Decision Issues Waiting
I think the way I do things would be difficult to teach somebody to do. They need to get another good used car dealer. That’s what they need. Find a good car dealer.
BERNIE ECCLESTONE

Car Difficulty Somebody Thinking
Generally I still believe that Lewis [Hamilton] is the best champion that we have had in a long, long time. He manages to get to all different walks of life: red carpet, fashion business, and music – you name it.
BERNIE ECCLESTONE

Believe Fashion Names
I can’t remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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Journalist Kind Remember
I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.
BERNIE ECCLESTONE

Daughter Girl Son

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