Carroll Shelby Professions : Automotive Designer Born : January 11, 1923 Died : May 10, 2012 Browse All Authors Top 32 quotes by Carroll Shelby There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction. Carroll Shelby drivers entrepreneur enough Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today. Carroll Shelby live-for-today tomorrow yesterday If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself. Carroll Shelby ifs Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races Carroll Shelby car race winning 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 ferrari winning world 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 horse race sports I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted. Carroll Shelby dimes damn made 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 car ambition race It was fun to blow off a Porsche with a 3900 donkey [the 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang]. Carroll Shelby porsche blow fun 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 california stupid jobs 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. Carroll Shelby car thank-god race 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 ready-to-move-on worry moving 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 car design people I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. Carroll Shelby east-texas airplane thinking 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 doomsday attitude people Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game. Carroll Shelby racing matter games What I wanted to do was build an automobile. Carroll Shelby automobile wanted Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant. Carroll Shelby porsche bmw arrogant Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad Carroll Shelby cornbread chili men I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal. Carroll Shelby perfect animal looks Similar Authors Harley Earl automotive-designer Colin Chapman automotive-designer All Authors
