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"[narration] There's a point at 7,000 RPM... where everything fades. The machine becomes weightless. Just disappears. And all that's left is a body moving through space and time. 7,000 RPM. That's where you meet it. You feel it coming. It creeps up on you, close in your ear. Asks you a question. The only question that matters. Who are you?"
"We're lighter, we're faster, and if that don't work, we're nastier."
"[Shelby's speech at the Ford Mustang's debut event] Thank you. Well, if my daddy was here today, he'd tell me to sit on down and leave the yakking to the college boys so, like my cars, I'll make this fast. When I was 10 years old, Pops said to me, 'Son, it's a truly lucky man who knows what he wants to do in this world. 'Cause that man will never work a day in his life.' But there are a few, a precious few, and, hell, I don't know if they're lucky or not. But there are a few people who find something they have to do. Something obsesses 'em. Something that if they can't do it, it's gonna drive them clean out of their mind. I'm that guy. And I know one other man feels exactly the same. His name... His name is Henry Ford. And together, we're gonna build the fastest automobiles in the world. And we're gonna make history too, at Le Mans. My name is Carroll Shelby. I build race cars."
"[after seeing Enzo Ferrari arguing with his pit crew] I don't speak Italian, but he ain't happy."
"[Demanding with Leo Beebe while finding out the results of the Le Mans race] Where's the tie?! Where's the goddamn tie?!"
"So, you think that Ford are going to let you build the car that you want, the way you want it? Ford. Motor. Company. Those guys. Have you ever been to Detroit? I mean, they have floors and floors of lawyers. And millions of marketing guys. And they're all gonna want to meet you; oh, they're gonna want to get their photo taken with the great Carroll Shelby. And they're all gonna kiss your ass, and they're gonna go back to their lovely offices, and then work out new ways to screw you. Why? Because they can't help it. Because they just want to please their boss who wants to please his boss who wants to please his boss. And they hate themselves for it. But deep down, who they hate even more are guys like you. Because you're not like them, because you don't think like them, because you're different."
"[after test-driving the GT40] This car wants to go faster, I can feel it."
"[test-driving the GT40 with the new engine "The Beast"] OHH! Giddy-up, giddy-up!"
"[being surprisingly calm and consoling to Shelby after the results of the Le Mans race, which Miles is in 2nd place] You promised me the drive, not the win."
"They took the American dream for a ride."
"Based on the incredible true story."
"Matt Damon – Carroll Shelby"
"Christian Bale – Ken Miles"
"Jon Bernthal – Lee Iacocca"
"Caitriona Balfe – Mollie Miles"
"Tracy Letts – Henry Ford II"
"Josh Lucas – Leo Beebe"
"Noah Jupe – Peter Miles"
"Remo Girone – Enzo Ferrari"
"Ray McKinnon – Phil Remington"
"JJ Feild – Roy Lunn"
"Jack McMullen – Charlie Agapiou"
"Corrado Invernizzi – Franco Gozzi"
"Tanner Foust – Ronnie Bucknum"
"Brent Pontin – Chris Amon"
"Benjamin Rigby – Bruce McLaren"
"Francesco Bauco – Lorenzo Bandini"
"Joe Williamson – Donald N. Frey"
"Ian Harding – Ford Executive - Ian"
"Christopher Darga – John Holman"
"Jonathan LaPaglia – Eddie"
"Ben Collins – Denny Hulme"
"Alex Gurney – Dan Gurney"
"Marisa Petroro – Cristina Ford"
"Giovanni Cirfiera – Gianni Agnelli"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.