Will Carroll
Will Carroll
Will Carroll is a sportswriter specializing in the coverage of medical issues, including injuries and performance-enhancing drugs. Carroll's "Under the Knife" column appeared on Baseball Prospectus for eight years during his stint there as a senior writer, and he also contributed to the site's radio efforts as well as the Puck Prospectus spin-off site. He is the author of two books on sports-related medical topics. Carroll has no formal medical training...
fun blow porsche
It was fun to blow off a Porsche with a 3900 donkey [the 1965 Shelby GT350 Mustang].
attitude people doomsday
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.
moving worry ready-to-move-on
The day you were born, it was already written down the day you're gonna check out. Now, I'm not gonna throw myself under a truck, but I'm not gonna worry about when I die. I'm ready to move on when that day comes.
sports horse race
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.'
jobs stupid california
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.
ambition race car
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
ifs
If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself.
dimes made damn
I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.
winning world ferrari
My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.
yesterday today tomorrow
Yesterday's History. Tomorrow's a Mystery. So live for today.
winning race car
Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races
enough horsepower traction
There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.
civilization firsts complicated
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.
leaving might empires
It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.