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You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.

Bernie Ecclestone

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Bernie Ecclestone
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: October 28
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Businessperson
Formula One Driver
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Bernard Charles Ecclestone
Bernard Charles Bernie Ecclestone
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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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[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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It's the engine. They should have never had that. The biggest mistake people have made... I say, people, because it wasn't just me alone, was not insisting Mercedes supply Red Bull an engine. Because had they supplied the same engine as they had, you would have seen good racing, you would have seen Red Bull up there last year.
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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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As the cancellation of the German Grand Prix indicates, Germany is a terrible market for Formula One.
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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 so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.
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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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Take away Toto Wolff's Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street - nobody would recognize him.
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Under the engine cover, no one cares what's in there. Nobody cares.
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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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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'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.
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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 I would find it easier to talk with Nico [Rosenberg] than Lewis [Hamilton], as Lewis is into things that are very distant to me.
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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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When there is more money at stake it affects the atmosphere and things become more businesslike.
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I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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I have earned the money and changed the nappies!
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