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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.
Racing has reached the point where it is pricing the young driver, no matter his talent, out of the game.
I'm a terrible husband.
I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.
Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.
I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
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.
I had a lot of fun driving race cars, but it wasn't my No. 1 priority.
I love horsepower.
I love raising animals. I look at animals as more perfect human beings. I can relate to an animal.
I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.
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.
Thank god there's no 48-hour race anywhere in the world, because chances are nobody could beat Porsche in a 48 hour race. They're probably the only cars in the world that would stand up for something like that.
Any man that eats Chili and Cornbread can't be all bad
My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.
Every morning I wake up with new ideas.
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.
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.
