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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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The banks don't have anything - no rights whatsoever. The banks are shareholders of SLEC, and SLEC has no rights. I am the CEO of Formula One Management and Formula One Administration, which runs the business in F1. From this point of view, I own F1.
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I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist.
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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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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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But when it comes to F1 I am a huge Lewis [Hamilton] fan because he is a super promoter of the sport. From a pure business aspect - sorry Nico if I have to say this - you are not so good for my business.
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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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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 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 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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It'd be good for the world if [Donald Trump] won.
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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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I have 100 percent confidence in the German judicial system.
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Under the engine cover, no one cares what's in there. Nobody cares.
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You need to have proper management if you're going to move forward.
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Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to
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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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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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