Richard Hammond Quotes

Oversteer is best cause you dont see the tree that kills you.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

And to Mindy, I can only ever say a simple thank you. And dedicate the rest of my life to her.

Some say he isn’t machine washable, and all his potted plants are called ‘Steve’. All we know is he’s called the Stig.