31 Quotes by Jacky Ickx

The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

My school achievements remained bad and my parents said : Each person has their abilities. You only have to tease them out. They urged me to find an area, where I could beat the others.

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

Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.

What will have seduced me, it was to have the possibility of winning, while at the school, everybody said to me that I was bad everywhere.

Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.

Historic Grand Prix is a collective nostalgia in the discipline which becomes more and more hermetic to those who are not a part of it.

Without the affection and the passion of the witnesses who revolve around this sport, this one would not exist, the drivers either!

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