Top 25 Dick Strawbridge Quotes

When you work with people, you buy into it, you work together and you pull together. It doesn’t matter what your challenge is: there’s a sense of achievement at the end of it.

As one of seven children, our family life was full of energy and fun – we all knew how to laugh and work hard.

I love the whole idea of family and what gets left behind when you are gone. I’m very proud of my children; I was one of seven.

Sadly, I have very vague memories of Burma. The family was forced to leave when the generals took over.

There was always laughter in our house. And I have great memories of my dad making an Ulster fry on a Saturday morning. They were legendary even though he couldn’t really cook.

For me, London seemed to be frantic without going anywhere.

Cooking is about ingredients.

My old man used to say that I would argue the hind leg of a donkey. If I didn’t agree with something, I wasn’t prepared to accept it.

My body was built through years of good food – and beer.

We forget the importance of engineering, but it’s been used to design everything from St. Paul‘s Cathedral to The Shard.

I was still a serving officer when I competed in ‘Scrapheap Challenge,’ initially as a major and then a lieutenant-colonel when I was joined by my brothers in a team called ‘Brothers in Arms.’

I was captain of the rugby side at Shrivenham – as were my two brothers after me.

I’m a very simple person.

I passed the 11-plus and went up to the senior school, where my two older sisters had already gone. I was in the ‘A’ stream, but in the third year, they asked me to give up Latin; no one had ever got 7 per cent before.

Nature is so phenomenal.

All insulation is environmentally friendly. Some installation has better environmental credentials, but what matters is the energy it saves.

For over 20 years, I was in the Army, and it’s given me a real love of history.

For a nation that spends a lot of time talking about the weather, we don’t seem to realise just how much sunshine we actually get. Maybe that’s because we tend to concentrate on the negative aspects.

Although I am the oldest with the biggest moustache, my brothers are progressively taller; I put it down to the extra potatoes they were able to eat after I left home.

When I started presenting ‘Scrapheap Challenge,’ I was rubbish at tuning V8 engines.

My daughter, Charlotte Strawbridge, has recorded an album, and my favourite song from that is ‘Empires Made Of Sand.’

Who doesn’t like playing with a railway? I think we’ve all got Thomas the Tank Engine in our blood.

With a little bit of common sense, anything is achievable.

I love a challenge and a bit of fun.

I was quite capable at school, but I spent a lot of time in detention.