Carroll Shelby Quotes

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

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  Entrepreneur, Enough, Drivers

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

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  Yesterday, Live For Today, Tomorrow

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

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  Ifs

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• Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

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  Winning, Race, Car

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

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  Dimes, Made, Damn

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• 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.'

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  Sports, Horse, Race

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

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  Winning, Ferrari, World

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

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  Men, Chili, Cornbread

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• 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.

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  Moving, Worry, Ready To Move On

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

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  Ambition, Race, Car

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• 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.

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  Car, People, Design

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• Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

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  Bmw, Arrogant, Porsche

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• 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.

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  Race, Car, Thank God

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• 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.

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  Attitude, People, Doomsday

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

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  Airplane, Thinking, East Texas

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

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  Fun, Blow, Porsche

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• What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

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  Automobile, Wanted

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Stupid, California

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

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  Animal, Perfect, Looks

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

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  Games, Racing, Matter

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