Carroll Shelby Quotes
100 Carroll Shelby Quotes (Shelby Quotes)
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Automobiles are the thing that I’m known for and that’s really my love and that’s what I think about more than anything else.
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If it ain’t worth a sh*t, people won’t buy it, and it don’t matter how much you spend on the ads!
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When something doesn’t work out right, you can’t stop.
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There’s more ways to get where you’re trying to get, if the first one doesn’t work.
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You can figure it out, if you have the drive, to do it and don’t let disappointments kill you.
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Don’t let them take away your desire to accomplish something.
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My new priorities were to build my own cars.
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[At age 85] I constantly think how lucky I am…
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I woke up one morning and I says ‘To h*ll with this, I’m going to go do what I want to.’
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[At age 85] I’m so thankful that I’ve had nearly 60 years now of doing exactly what I wanted to do…
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It wasn’t work for them. They were doing it because they were doing what they wanted to do.
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[At the age of 88] It’s just as much fun now as it was then.
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Next year, Ferrari’s ass is mine.
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I’ve spent the past 40 years of my life building some of the world’s fastest cars. Now I’m shifting gears. I’m taking my companies public. This will allow us to continue to grow the business now, and long after I’m gone.
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Enthusiasm and luck will do a h*ll of a lot more than education sometimes.
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You better learn to work with people because they’re the only thing you have to make anything work.
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That’s all business is, it’s just solving problems everyday.
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I think we all take our problems too seriously.
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The desire for speed has always been there…
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[At age 85] Now that I have macular degeneration I don’t drive quite as fast…
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[On having been through 40 heart attacks] I thought it was just angina…
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I never looked back…
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The guys in the shop want to go racing.
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Break the sh*t out of it. This is the first car. You’re going to break every damned thing in the car in testing. You have to in order to know if it’s any damned good.
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It is never easy to build a sports car with a major manufacturer.
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I found out when I was forty years old that I have an attention span deficit, I can’t keep my mind on anything for too long before I get bored.
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Masten was haunted by the idea it was going to blow up.
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Everything that ever happens to you – I think there’s luck, there’s timing, it takes talent and it takes a combination…
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Here I am in several businesses, but the one business that I’ve been successful at is automobiles. And I’m going to concentrate on that.
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Disappointments have never really bothered me that much.
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We were going into production and the US government decided that emissions and safety were more important than performance…
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I think to be successful in racing it has to be your number one priority…
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Let’s turn it into a sportscar.
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Just looking for ways to make that 2.2-liter engine think it’s a 5-liter V8.
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I wanted a car that a young couple could afford to buy, but would enjoy getting’ out in.
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I can’t do anything in particular except pick people.
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Building your own sports car is a dream for any racer, and that’s certainly what the Cobra has been for me.
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We built production cars so we could go racing.
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Relax boys, we’re only over Texas.
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Before the start, I didn’t even think about it being my last race. I was in third, and my car wasn’t runnin’ very well. I was on about my fifth nitroglycerin pill. I came behind Jim Hall, and I started getting angina pains again, so I popped another nitro, slowed up for a lap, and then said ‘aw, piss on it – I’m gonna finish the race and hang it up.’ I made that decision during the race… I never looked back, never gave it another thought. My new priorities were to build my own cars.
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