“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...”

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

“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...”

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

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

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

“I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.”

“Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.”

“Not everyone may not think the way you do.”

“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”

“To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.”

“What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when youre so ugly on the inside?”

“You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.”

“Heartbreak is a loss. Divorce is a piece of paper.”