Richard Hammond Quotes

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

  Richard Hammond

  Cat, Bmw, People

  "Top Gear" with Richard Hammond, November 24, 2002.

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

  Richard Hammond

  Tree, Causes

  "Top Gear" (TV Series), (2002-).

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

  Richard Hammond

  Epic

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

  Richard Hammond

  Thinking, Levels, Body

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Richard Hammond

  Thinking, Greed, Arrogance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Richard Hammond

  Car, Way, Communicate

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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

  Richard Hammond

  Men, Supermodel, Has Beens

  "Top Gear". TV Series, December 26, 2004.

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• 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.

  Richard Hammond

  Believe, Beer, Pie

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• 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.

  Richard Hammond

  Car, Mexican, Lazy

  "Mexican anger over BBC 'feckless, lazy' claims" by Simon Hooper, www.cnn.com. February 2, 2011.

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• Im not reckless. I was never reckless.

  Richard Hammond

  Reckless

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• 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.

  Richard Hammond

  Names, Car, Wish

  "Top Gear: Botswana Special". Comedy, Talk-Show, November 04, 2007.

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

  Richard Hammond

  Ducks, Lovely, Goats

  "Are your favourite animals hamsters?". Interview with Kirsty Stark, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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• 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.

  Richard Hammond

  Light, Horsepower, Havens

  "Top Gear. Series 9". TV Series, January 28, 2007.

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

  Richard Hammond

  Character, Car

  Interview with Miranda Lightstone, www.askmen.com.

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

  Richard Hammond

  Machines, Top Gear, Plant

  "Top Gear" with Richard Hammond, March 04, 2007.

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• 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.

  Richard Hammond

  Italian, Car, Mexican

  "Despite Host Controversy, Amazon Takes A Chance On 'Top Gear'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. July 31, 2015.

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

  Richard Hammond

  Disappointment, Tests, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Richard Hammond

  Brilliant, Forty

  "Richard Hammond: I'm having a mid-life crisis in reverse". www.mirror.co.uk. December 22, 2011.

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• 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

  Sports, Jobs, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do not see how hanging litter louts up by their heels and beating them with sticks could be considered a crime.

  Richard Hammond

  Sticks, Crime, Heels

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

  Richard Hammond

  Fans, Audi, Bigs

  Interview with Miranda Lightstone, www.askmen.com.

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• 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

  Car, Pressure, Tire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Brother, Heart, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Richard Hammond

  Car, Water, Feelings

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Richard Hammond

  Years, Age, Hollywood

  "Richard Hammond: I'm having a mid-life crisis in reverse". www.mirror.co.uk. December 22, 2011.

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