Quotes for All
Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin. That really pissed me off, so I decided to put something in front of it to distract them. “I got ’16’ from a traditional American folk song, where a man is singing about … Read more
Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races. Carroll Smith
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. Carroll Shelby
Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races Carroll Shelby
There is never enough horsepower……just not enough traction. Carroll Shelby
Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I’d rather have one horsepower – in a horse. That’s macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse. Bryan Callen
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the … Read more
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower. Aly Khan
Two-hundred forty horsepower isn’t enough to move me anymore. Enough to move my body, yes, but not my soul. Albie Sachs
I was born with a lot of horsepower. There was a lot cooking inside me, a lot of energy, and Dad was a strong man by will and by intelligence, and the combination of us was almost bound to result in periodic explosions. He and I disagreed politically, very violently, and things would get hectic … Read more