Richard Hammond Quotes

• 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!

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Trained, Technical

• 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.

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Tremendously, Distance

• 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!

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Broke, Brothers

• 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.

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Driving, Electric

• 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.

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  Tags in Balance, Drives

• 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.

  Richard Hammond

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Damaged, Scratch

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

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Easiest, Simplest

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

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Character, Personally

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

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Cruel, Fan

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

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Comfortable, Filled

• I’m not reckless. I was never reckless.

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

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  Tags in Hollywood, Make

• I’m a presenter.

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

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  Tags in Fitness, Cope

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

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Drive, Small

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

  Richard Hammond

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Brain, Happens

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

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Particularly, Myself

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

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Happier, Forty

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

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Injured, Questioning

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

  Richard Hammond

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  Tags in Geological, Disappointment

Richard Hammond (24)

Birth:	19th December, 1969
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Anchor, Author, Broadcaster, Journalist

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