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I'm a terrible husband.
Simplify, then add lightness.
Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.
Every morning I wake up with new ideas.
Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races
What I wanted to do was build an automobile.
It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car.
Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad
You won't catch me driving a race car that I have built.
Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.
Any car which holds together for a whole race is too heavy.
Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.
I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.
The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.
There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.
The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.
Rules are for the obidience of fools and interpretations of smart men.
If you go by a school and the kids don't whistle, back to the drawing board.
It was fun to blow off a Porsche with a 3900 donkey [the 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang].
I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'
I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.
I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.
Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.
I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.
I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.
Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.
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.
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.
The art of automobile design has progressed, until today it is regarded as one of the most important factors in the marketing of the automobile.
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.
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.
July 4 is the perfect day to relax. It also provides a very good chance to spend quality time with friends and family since everyone is able to get away from the hassles of every day life, such as work.
Thank god there's no 48-hour race anywhere in the world, because chances are nobody could beat Porsche in a 48 hour race. They're probably the only cars in the world that would stand up for something like that.
The day you were born, it was already written down the day you're gonna check out. Now, I'm not gonna throw myself under a truck, but I'm not gonna worry about when I die. I'm ready to move on when that day comes.
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.
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.'
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.