34 Quotes by 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.

It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.

I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'

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

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.

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

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

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.

I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.