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Carroll Shelby
Profession : Designer
Birth : January 11, 1923
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I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'
Carroll Shelby
I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.
Carroll Shelby
What I wanted to do was build an automobile.
Carroll Shelby
I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.
Carroll Shelby
Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.
Carroll Shelby
Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
Carroll Shelby
I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.
Carroll Shelby
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'
Carroll Shelby
I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.
Carroll Shelby
I love horsepower.
Carroll Shelby
Every morning I wake up with new ideas.
Carroll Shelby
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.
Carroll Shelby
My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.
Carroll Shelby
I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.
Carroll Shelby
I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.
Carroll Shelby
The Cobra is my personal favorite car. The original 289 Cobra is the car I respect the most. I like to drive the 289 better than the 427.
Carroll Shelby
I'm a terrible husband.
Carroll Shelby
I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.
Carroll Shelby
I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.
Carroll Shelby
The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.
Carroll Shelby
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