Carroll Shelby Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“Every morning I wake up with new ideas.”

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

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

“I love horsepower.”

“I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.”

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

“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.”

“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.”