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 1 Share Now -
I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.' - Carroll Shelby 2 Share Now -
I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority. - Carroll Shelby 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. - Carroll Shelby 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
