Jacky Ickx famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Art #Simple #Skills
The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Lap #Alive #Facts
The existence is a tremendous curiosity, with in the course of the years, the discovery of yourself in your inmost evolutions. With the age you feel better than you are, what you represent. Which means a little at the planet's scale.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Mean #Feel Better #Discovery
I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Distance #Years #Long
In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Reality #Car #Ends
I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Believe #Ferrari #I Believe
In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Past #Two #Accepted
My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Father #Fans #Motorsports
I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Grateful
The margin between success and drama is fractional.
-- Jacky Ickx

#Drama

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