Jackie Stewart

I would have been a much more popular World Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear.

Sir John Young "Jackie" Stewart, OBE (born 11 June 1939) is a British former Formula One racing driver from Scotland, and three-time Formula One Champion.

Quotes

• I would have been a much more popular World Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
  • "Retrospective>>grand Prix & The Man Part 4 – Speedhunters". Speedhunters. (30 October 2009).
• When you've got dyslexia and you find something you're good at, you put more into it than anyone else; you can't think the way of the clever folk, so you're always thinking out of the box. So you sometimes can be considerably better at what you latch onto than anybody else. It saved my life, because I had been humiliated and frustrated.
  • "Steve Dow, Journalist". (25 January 2013).