Eddie the Eagle Quotes

Eddie the Eagle

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 5, 1963

I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him!

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I always know that people will only remember me for my efforts in Calgary which, I must admit, seem without doubt to have kept the name alive. But I honestly love law and really hope it can take off for me. I'm going for it.

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I won't win a World Cup, and I won't win the Olympics, but I'm sure I can compete with the best, and that's what I want to show.

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Maybe I am a little bit of a clown, but I am also a serious sportsman.

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People seemed to appreciate how much I wanted to pursue something I loved. They seemed to understand how much ski jumping meant to me.

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If there were some people who considered me a joke, I'm sorry about that. But I did not do it for any other reason except that I loved to ski jump, and I had hopes that by my doing it, other people in my country would take up the sport.

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When I trained with the Japanese team, there we'd be singing Oasis songs at the top of our voices at the top of the jumps. People thought we were daft.

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When people make fun, it doesn't bother me. I've always enjoyed a laugh.

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I think because I'm so naturally happy and unaffected and open, people thought I didn't take the jumping seriously. You're up that high, believe me - you take it very seriously.

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People say I wasn't a real athlete, but I trained hard. It's possible to take something seriously and still have fun at it, you know.

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Ski jumping is just 10 per cent physical, 90 per cent mental. Some people can't do that. It's not just to do with the fear at the top. It takes a lot of guts to go off the top, but it takes 100 times more courage to jump off the end.

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Sport on TV is so boring.

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For all my 'Eddie the Eagle' goofing around before the camera while in training for the Calgary Olympics in 1988, I was never less than 100 per cent serious on every single jump.

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I've fractured my skull twice, damaged a kidney, snapped a cruciate ligament in my knee, and broken all manner of bones, including my jaw. And I count myself very lucky it hasn't been worse!

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I was an expert skier who set his sights on going to the 1988 Olympics in Canada to represent Britain, and went from novice ramps to the 120-metre jump in five months. That's possible only with utter focus.

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In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

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It's not been a bad life, and I do know that I could never have been a world champion. All I ever wanted to do was be the best I could with what I had, which wasn't very much, really. And that's what I think I did.

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It was while I was in the mental hospital that I got my letter from the British Olympic Association saying, 'Congratulations. You've been picked to go to the Olympic Games.' I kept stressing I wasn't a patient.

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I was like the George Clooney of the ski business.

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I was the best ski jumper in the United Kingdom.

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