Caroll Shelby's Quotes
Born: 1923-01-11
Profession: Businessman
Nation: American
Biography of Caroll Shelby
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
Tags: Ambition, Car, LearnI didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.
Tags: Good, Life, TimeI don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.
Tags: Cars, Guy, TexasI love horsepower.
Tags: LoveI've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.'
Tags: Car, Next, SaidI'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.
Tags: American, Another, EastI've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.
Tags: Good, Run, WorkRacing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
Tags: Game, Matter, YoungWhat I wanted to do was build an automobile.
Tags: Automobile, Build, WantedI 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.
Tags: Design, End, WorkI 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.
Tags: Ambition, Happy, Rich