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 Copy Share Image
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… — Carroll Shelby Copy Share Image
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. — Carroll Shelby Copy Share
I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work. — Carroll Shelby Copy Share Image
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… — Carroll Shelby Copy Share Image
I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal. — Carroll Shelby Copy Share Image
The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab… — Carroll Shelby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Carroll Shelby Copy Share Image
