Quotes by Richard Hammond

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

Unless I have been sorely misinformed, supermodels are powerless to resist a man with illuminated doorsills.

You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat -- and people would still buy it.

Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent.

When the afterburner lights, I haven't got 5,000 horsepower. I've got 10,000 horsepower, and possibly the biggest accident you've ever seen in your life.

I think I wanted to be on Top Gear from a fairly young age because I loved cars and I wanted to do something on telly because I loved TV. I know that I?m ridiculously lucky.

This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that we'd ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadn't said that.

I'm a presenter.

Cars are changing and so is the way we communicate about them.

Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat.

I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.

I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

I run a lot. I have this five-mile run that I try and do a few times a week. If I do more, I get shin splints and it drives me mad, so I have to balance it.

If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually.

With the case of running, it really is a case of get out, set yourself a distance, run it, and then do it again the next day. It's tremendously simple.

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

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!

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

I don't particularly want to smear myself into a hillside.

I'm not reckless. I was never reckless.

At home I drive an old Land Rover.

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

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!

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

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

I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

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

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

The easiest and simplest thing that any one can do to make their car safer, more gas efficient, whatever -- check the tire pressure.