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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• Carroll Shelby:

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

• Carroll Shelby:

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• 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:

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• Carroll Shelby:

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• Carroll Shelby:

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• Carroll Shelby:

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• Carroll Shelby:

  What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

• Carroll Shelby:

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