Carroll Shelby Quotes & Sayings

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

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

“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'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.”

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

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

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

“Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.”

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

“What I wanted to do was build an automobile.”