Jacky Ickx Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.”

“In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.”

“What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.”

“In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.”

“To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.”

“But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.”

“Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.”

“In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.”

“Nevertheless during these two seasons, Chapman impressed me a lot because he had the faculty to pull himself out of the most critical situations.”

“Before the season begins, I had even damaged some frames, but Ken did not hold it against me and kept all his confidence. He was the one who incontestably changed my life, because without his help, I do not know what I will have become.”