Carroll Shelby famous quotes

There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Enough #Horsepower

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races
-- Carroll Shelby

#Winning #Race #Car

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

#Winning #Ferrari #World

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Jobs #Stupid #California

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Ambition #Race #Car

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Dimes #Made #Wanted

Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Games #Racing #Matter

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Bmw #Arrogant #Porsche

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Automobile #Wanted

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

#People #Car #Design

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Airplane #Thinking #Texas

If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself.
-- 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

#Attitude #People #Doomsday

I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Animal #Perfect #Looks

The day you were born, it was already written down the day you're gonna check out. Now, I'm not gonna throw myself under a truck, but I'm not gonna worry about when I die. I'm ready to move on when that day comes.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Moving #Worry #Truck

Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.
-- Carroll Shelby

#Yesterday #Live For Today #Tomorrow

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

#Sports #Horse #Race

Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad
-- Carroll Shelby

#Men #Chili

It was fun to blow off a Porsche with a 3900 donkey [the 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang].
-- Carroll Shelby

#Fun #Blow #Porsche