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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. "
Race
Ambition
Car
" Every morning I wake up with new ideas. "
Wake Up
Morning
New
" I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life. "
Parent
Life
Home
" 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. "
End
Together
Work
" I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes. "
Texas
Who
Just
" I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority. "
Race
Driving
Fun
" I love horsepower. "
I Love
Love
" I'm a terrible husband. "
Terrible
Husband
" 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. "
Nothing
More
Listen
" 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.' "
Work
Me
Sports
" 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. "
See
Happy
Know
" I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted. "
Dime
Damn
Started
" It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car. "
Tiny
Motor
Massive
" I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The next one.' "
Always
Said
Next
" 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. "
Miles
Got
Dallas
" I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work. "
Had
Good
Work
" My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967. "
Win
World
Working
" Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant. "
BMW
Arrogant
Drivers
" Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game. "
Young
Talent
Racing
" 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. "
Drive
Car
Personal
" The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny. "
Kind
First Time
Funny
" 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. "
Thought
Stupid
Job
" What I wanted to do was build an automobile. "
Build
Wanted
Automobile
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