Carroll Shelby Quotes

There's a point at 7,000 RPM where everything fades. The machine becomes weightless. It just disappears. All that's left, a body moving through space and time. 7,000 RPM, that's where you meet it. You feel it coming. It creeps up near you, and it asks you a question. The only question that really matters. Who are you?

We're lighter, we're faster, and if that don't work, we're nastier.

When I was 10 years old, my Pops said, son it's a truly lucky man who knows what he wants to do in this world. 'Cause that man will never work a day in his life.

Phil Remington : Nice stopwatch.
Carroll Shelby : Want one? They're Italian.

I don't speak Italian, but he ain't happy.

Henry Ford II : This isn't the first time Ford Motors' gone to war. We know how to do more than push papers. Go ahead, Carroll. Go to war.
Carroll Shelby : Thank you, sir.

My name is Carroll Shelby and performance is my business.