Bernie Ecclestone Quotes

F1 is about the best drivers competing against each other for the best teams producing the best cars they can.

To be completely honest, I am obsessed with Formula 1 so in the off-season I would like to have just a few more races to still race in F1.

I would like it to be remembered; I would love to be World Champion one day and have my name on the list. That is the real dream - although I am sure it is the dream for pretty much all the Formula 1 drivers.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

Simply racing a Formula 1 car is an achievement.

I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.

As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.

I said it was my dream to drive in F1.

It's been a big challenge to get into F1.

In my time in F1, I never doubted I could be successful. I sadly never made it on to the starting grid of an F1 race, but during testing I completed a race distance.

We are in F1 and we want to fight against the best.

My ambition is to one day be in Formula 1 and hopefully become world champion.

Monaco was my first race of the season and I spoke with a number of people and all seemed to be very optimistic.

We have 21 races in the year and Monaco is the one that you want to win.

It would be quite good to be a Formula 1 racecar driver.

Formula 1 is a huge international phenomenon even if an otherwise car racing obsessed American public has always found Formula 1 to be a little weird.

Obviously being third in the Formula 1 world championship would be crazy.

I used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking 'that is what I want to do.'

It's true that Ferrari and Monaco are the two most important things to F1.

I think Formula One is extremely difficult, obviously, and it's the best drivers in the world so it's not easy to jump in and be on your top level immediately.

It's easy to get into the competition of F1, and you are never going to win every race even though you want to. So when you're not winning, you want to win, so you're not that happy. But you have to look at the big perspective, and I am very fortunate to be one of 22 in the world to do this.

It was always a dream for me to come to Jordan. Of course I want to be back in Formula One.

Maybe I am the driver who got the most close to the championship in history.

Since I was a child I've been looking up to Formula One. Dreaming to be a Formula One driver.

I wish Michael Schumacher would come try NASCAR. That'd be cool.