Carroll Shelby Quotes

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

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.

~ Carroll Shelby

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

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

~ Carroll Shelby

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

~ Carroll Shelby

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.

~ Carroll Shelby

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

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

~ Carroll Shelby

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

~ Carroll Shelby