It was fun to blow off a Porsche with a 3900 donkey [the 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang]. — Carroll Shelby
I’m not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all — 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
Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game. — 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 didn’t have time for my children much. I wasn’t a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life. — Carroll Shelby
I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that’s their ambition — Carroll Shelby
I’ve always been asked, ‘what is my favorite car?’ and I’ve always said ‘the next one.’ — Carroll Shelby
I’ve got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of dallas, but I’ve also got another 65-acre — Carroll Shelby