Quotes from Richard Hammond

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

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

At home I drive an old Land Rover.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

He wrote to tell him not to be scared that he had injured his brain, because he had done the same thing and got better. It was a source of comfort beyond words.

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

Once the switch of parenthood is thrown, it changes you for ever & you can never escape the extra pull of humanity it gives you." - Richard Hammond

The thing about going abroad is that it's quite far away.

The home was familiar. But I was a stranger. There was a huge distance between me and this life that I had led. Everything was the same, yes - everything except me. The sameness in the things around me just served to illuminate the strangeness in me.

Once the switch of parenthood is thrown, it chages you for ever & you can never exchange the extra pull of humanity it gives you.

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.

I'm a presenter.

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

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.

Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself