Carroll Shelby Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Carroll Shelby:

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

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.

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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.

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The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.

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I love horsepower.

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Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

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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.

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What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

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

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Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

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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.

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Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.

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I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

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Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

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I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

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

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I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

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

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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.

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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.'

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