Bernie Ecclestone Quotes & Sayings

Waiters are like hookers, never around when you want them. — Bernie Ecclestone

If you're going to take the attitude, I don't think it will work, you will never do anything. — Bernie Ecclestone

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. — Bernie Ecclestone

I'd rather get to the 70-year-old guy who's got plenty of cash. — Bernie Ecclestone

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

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to — Bernie Ecclestone

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

They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport. — Bernie Ecclestone

I can't remember a single occasion when I have been kind to a journalist. — Bernie Ecclestone

People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: 'We'll come to Silverstone and have a look how it's done', and I tell them to stay away. — Bernie Ecclestone

Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances. — Bernie Ecclestone

If you say 'Good Morning' in America and it's five past twelve you end up with a lawsuit. — Bernie Ecclestone

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome. — Bernie Ecclestone

I leave at half-time; by then you can see which way it's going. If you ask me to name five of our team, I couldn't. There's that guy who scores goals - Taarabt. Routledge I've heard of. All bloody nice guys but I don't mix with them so I don't know them well. I don't go in the dressing room. They can walk out of the showers and I feel I've got an inferiority complex. — Bernie Ecclestone