34 Quotes by 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.

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 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.

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.

I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

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