Carroll Shelby Quotes

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

  • Thank god there's no 48-hour race anywhere in the world, because chances are nobody could beat Porsche in a 48 hour race. They're probably the only cars in the world that would stand up for something like that.

  • Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.

  • Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad

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

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

  • My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

    Winning   Ferrari   World  
  • Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

  • 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.

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

  • There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.'

  • I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

  • Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

    Winning  
  • Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

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Carroll Shelby

  • Born: January 11, 1923
  • Died: May 10, 2012
  • Occupation: Automotive Designer