Richard Hammond Quotes & Sayings

“I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.”

“Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character.”

“It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.”

“No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.”

“And I like pygmy goats, because they're just lovely, and ducks.”

“Failing my driving test first time; that was a disappointment on a geological scale.”

“I damaged all the complicated bits of the brain to do with processing and emotional control. I was prey to every single emotion that swept over me and I couldn't deal with it. I had to re-learn things from scratch.”

“My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!”

“At home I drive an old Land Rover.”

“I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.”