Carroll Shelby

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

— 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 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 work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

— Carroll Shelby

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 work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

— Carroll Shelby

Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

— Carroll Shelby

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

— 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'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 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

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

— 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