Liddell Hart said of him: "To have moulded the best two British armoured divisions of the war was an outstanding achievement, but Hobart made it a "hat trick" by his subsequent training of the specialised 79th Armoured Division, the decisive factor on D-Day."
Liddell Hart sagde om ham: at have skabt de bedste to britiske pansrede divisioner i krigen var en fremragende bedrift, men Hobart lavede sit hattrick med sin efterfølgende optræning af den specialiserede 79. pansrede division, den afgørende faktor på D-dag.