Ickx Jacky Quotes & Sayings

It occurred to me that there are at least three indisputable facts about best friends: 1. They wait for you, and 2. They slow down enough to walk beside you, and 3. They always know when you need hot chocolate. — Natalie Lloyd

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? — Patrick Henry

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. — Jacky Ickx

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

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

And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by an entire civilization, what an incalculable loss, an impoverishment, a tragic deformation, a grief, would ultimately be suffered by both knower and known.
— Richard Tarnas

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. — Jacky Ickx

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari. — Jacky Ickx

Entrepreneurship boils down to the simple fact that a team of really smart people who can get things done are going to get smart, useful things done. — Joel Spolsky

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired. — Jacky Ickx

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

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

Difficulty is not lack of knowledge, but moral weakness. If you love Jesus with a pure heart, you will know where He feeds His flock as surely as every man who loves drugs or alcohol knows where to find them (Matthew 5:8). "Who is the man that fears the Lord? Him shall He teach in the way He chooses" (Psalm 25:12). — Richard Wurmbrand

Science arose from poetry ... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other. — Jacky Ickx

I mean, Lady Gaga is trying to be a freak or whatever but that quality of being very meaningly and heartfelt, but also having a sense of humor about it, bands don't do that anymore. Lady Gaga's songs are cheesy. The Beatles weren't cheesy. That's the hardest thing with music: to not be cheesy, but also be meaningful. That's the goal, I think. — Mac DeMarco

The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself. — Lisa Wingate

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. — Jacky Ickx

he cursed the malevolent Gods for the black day when idly, for their amusement, they had spawned men. — Michael Moorcock

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

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. — Jacky Ickx

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

That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me. — Jacky Ickx

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike. — Jacky Ickx

There once was a hero who flew too close to the sun. His wings of wax fell apart and he plummeted to the earth. — Hiromu Arakawa

I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me. — Jacky Ickx

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. — Jacky Ickx

The margin between success and drama is fractional. — Jacky Ickx

Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas. — Jacky Ickx

Losers, even if they do not have a brain,have a heart. — Chetan Bhagat

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. — Jacky Ickx