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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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Bernie Ecclestone
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: October 28
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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 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 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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If I feel like something's gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.
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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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There is no recipe for that. Both [Nico Rosenberg and Lewis Hamilton] are very likely equally talented in the car, so the fight between the two happens between the ears - in the head.
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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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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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Before they go to the race, people want to think four or five guys could win, but now... Normally you'd say, One of those two, and I think it's going to be Lewis [Hamiltom], because that's what had been proved up to now - thank God that Nico [Rosberg] has won some races.
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I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash.
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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 simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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Two races we've lost which I'm genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.
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If we didn't have Nico [Rosberg] and Lewis [Hamilton] in those cars - there's one or two guys down the field who in those cars would have delivered the same.
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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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If somebody says, You like putting out fires, and I say, It's not a case of liking it, but I do put them out, and if there aren't fires left I make them, so I can put them out. It's what we do.
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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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I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.
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I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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