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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.

Bernie Ecclestone

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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 simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
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Under the engine cover, no one cares what's in there. Nobody cares.
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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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