Eddie the Eagle Quotes

Eddie the Eagle

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 5, 1963

You've got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you're knocked, you've got to get up.

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I always say my first job is my building trade. The rest comes and goes.

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Once I was making £10,000 for an hour's work, but there have been years where my promotional stuff has brought in only a few hundred.

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That James Bond movie? The one where Bond skis off a cliff, shucks his skis, and parachutes to the ground? That's for me. That's what I want to be. A stuntman in a Bond movie.

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When I was a kid, people kept saying, 'You can't do this, you can't do that,' and I wanted to prove them wrong.

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I don't like bullies or selfishness or people who are grumpy.

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I try to keep fit, as it's better for both skiing and plastering. I cycle and jog and I dance a lot - Ceroc, a form of modern jive.

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As a child, I was always getting into risky situations with the potential to hurt myself, but mum and dad never stopped me doing what I wanted to do, and they assumed that if I fell and hurt myself, I would learn from that and maybe not do it again.

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My mum was wonderful.

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My dad supported me by working extra hours and giving me a little bit of extra money. He bought my camper van for me so I could go into Europe and drive from competition to competition.

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I've never really let any kind of negative things affect me, generally. I would take a positive out of the most desperately horrible situation.

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I'm not frightened of death.

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When I plummeted into infamy in the Calgary Olympics, I never thought that a film would be made about my life.

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The press portrayed me as a joke and a clown.

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I think the only bones I haven't broken are my shoulder, hip, and thigh.

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In 1988, I earned something like £700,000. Yeah! I was earning 10 grand an hour opening shopping centres. Yeah! The most I earned in one day was 65 grand. I opened the Alton Towers fun ride in the morning, did a commercial in the afternoon and an appearance at a nightclub in the evening. Sixty-five grand in one day!

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My brother is 18 months older than me, and my sister is three years younger. I'm the middle one. I was born in Cheltenham, and that's where I grew up.

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The worst thing that happened to me as a child was seeing my brother get pushed into a cement mixer.

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I've got two daughters of my own, and I loved watching my children grow up.

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