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Carroll Shelby

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I'm a terrible husband. - Carroll Shelby
#Husband
#Terrible
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
#Car
#Me
#Race
#Sports
#Work
It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car. - Carroll Shelby
#Car
#Lightweight
#Massive
#Motor
#Tiny
I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority. - Carroll Shelby
#Driving
#Fun
#Lot
#Priority
#Race
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
#Moments
#Win
#Working
#World
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. - Carroll Shelby
#Celebrity
#Guy
#Just
#Think
#Who
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
#Built
#Good
#Run
#Things
#Work
I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life. - Carroll Shelby
#Children
#Good
#Home
#Life
#Time
Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game. - Carroll Shelby
#Game
#Matter
#Point
#Talent
#Young
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
#Ambition
#Happy
#Know
#Rich
#See
The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny. - Carroll Shelby
#First Time
#First
#Funny
#Table
#Time
I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses. - Carroll Shelby
#About
#American
#Cattle
#Dallas
#Miles
What I wanted to do was build an automobile. - Carroll Shelby
#Automobile
#Build
#Wanted
I love horsepower. - Carroll Shelby
#I Love
#Love
Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant. - Carroll Shelby
#Arrogant
#BMW
#Drivers
#Porsche
Every morning I wake up with new ideas. - Carroll Shelby
#Ideas
#Morning
#New Ideas
#New
#Wake Up
I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted. - Carroll Shelby
#Damn
#Doing
#Never
#Until
#Wanted
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
#Attitude
#More
#Nothing
#People
#Predict
I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.' - Carroll Shelby
#Always
#Been
#Car
#Next
#Said
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
#Ambition
#Build
#Car
#Me
#My Own
#Race
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