Ed Martin Quotes

Virtual Reality for Formula One could be fantastic - driving the car!

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

F1 is exciting, its values are attractive and it could be an even better family sport.

F1 is a fight for people's time. There are millions of options today for how to spend it. That is probably the biggest difference from 1968 to now.

[Formula One] is entertainment and it competes with other entertainments - and not with other racing formats. It competes with people's time on a weekend. So you have to deliver.

Formula One is not just multinationals. It's also about national players wanting to get global coverage.

The world is changing. And a lot of people in Formula One are starting to understand this.

The last person in the UK who described his product as being crap in public was one Gerald Ratner - and he was gone immediately.

If you are a driver of a team and have a certain set of sponsors, who is the target market for those sponsors? But, of course, it is also a question of nationality.

Donald Trumps' senior advisor said on CNN that the US Presidential election was the ultimate reality TV show! Appeal to those you want to reach!

What still amuses me a bit is that in F1 people see the race basically on TV screens. But I am sure new tracks will be built.

[Formula One racing looking after Jackie Stewart in 1968] was not so intense and, yes, it was much more dangerous - what was definitely different back then was the level of safety.

I remember that Jackie [Stewart] was the first driver wearing flameproof underwear! What it definitely was: it was much more flamboyant. But that doesn't really make it better in my point of view.

Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.

Vodafone is building a digital stadium in Istanbul. It is really worth going to see that. The whole experience will change with the possibilities viewers will have.

The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with.

It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure.

You want to be the guy who makes an impact in every game. In this sport it's all about results-winning games and making the playoffs.

Sometimes offensive players get turned into defensive players, which sometimes isn't a bad thing, but for me I need a chance to play more offense.

I don't know WHEN I'll be big enough to play!

I made the move (to #NYR) thinking about this opportunity, to play in the #StanleyCup Final.

Every day's a blessing, right? It's all in your control.

I love to work with people and do what I love.

My manager makes fun of me for the fact that I avoid the money, I’m allergic to money...

I have the reputation for being the opposite of a money-grubber.

Respect is important, if someone has a very clear vision of what they want, as long as they find a way to communicate it, a respectful way…

I’d like to have a nice home set up, with a couple of dogs, and a fence, white picket fence.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

All the difficulties surrounding the making of Mars et Avril actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!

When American producers see my film, they think that I had a big budget to do it, like 23 million. But in fact I had 10 percent of that budget. I did Mars et Avril for only 2.3 million.

I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration.

People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

You cannot simply discard God like a box that has been emptied.

People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.

The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.

The tough competition among German manufacturers makes us fundamentally strong.

Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

When you enjoy what you do, work becomes play.

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

A lot of people don't enjoy their job, they may even hate it, but I am lucky enough to be able to make a living through my passion.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.