“My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.”
Author details
Related authors
Other Jacky Ickx Quotes
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 
58% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
Jacky Ickx
57% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
Jacky Ickx
56% of people like this quote