Hafthor Bjornsson Quotes

Hafthor Bjornsson

Profession : Athlete

Birth : November 26, 1988

You have to be willing to work 365 days a year and be absolutely obsessed with what you want to achieve and if you're willing to go that far then you're able to be the World's Strongest Man.

Hafthor Bjornsson

I eat a lot of sweet potatoes, a lot of meat, fish, chicken, good fats like cocoa butter, almonds.

Hafthor Bjornsson

I try not to let other people's opinions or words drag me down.

Hafthor Bjornsson

Everything is expensive in Iceland, especially food, and especially healthy food.

Hafthor Bjornsson

Everybody said you're never going to win this whole Classic. You're not strong enough. You're big, you're athletic, you're fast - but you will never win this Arnold Classic. Those were the people who didn't believe in me... I put in the work every single day - and here I am, three times champ!

Hafthor Bjornsson

A lot of big guys can't bend down, have knee pain, are slow. I'm fast. I'm flexible, especially for my size.

Hafthor Bjornsson

The deadlift is the single best exercise.

Hafthor Bjornsson

I am the future of strength as I am King of the Stones!

Hafthor Bjornsson

I've always enjoyed lifting heavy; I saw extremely good results. I just got hooked, seeing how strong I got and how much my body changed.

Hafthor Bjornsson

I was a center. I was quite athletic, I could shoot okay and I trained a lot. I played with the national team in Iceland.

Hafthor Bjornsson

I'm doing more acting, but I'm also focusing on strongman.

Hafthor Bjornsson

We need very specific equipment to train for World's Strongest Man and it's very hard to find this equipment in a normal gym. That's why I have my own gym back in Iceland.

Hafthor Bjornsson

It's very, very extreme how much food I need to put in to my body. It's a lot of work. More work than people realise.

Hafthor Bjornsson

People laughed at him and said, 'you'll never be famous, your name is too hard.' But everybody knows who Arnold Schwarzengger is. I'm far, far away from where he is.

Hafthor Bjornsson

I don't get people asking me to fight face-to-face but there's a lot of brave folk on the Internet.

Hafthor Bjornsson

No one has ever threatened me in real life but on Facebook and Twitter it's all the time. You just get Internet warriors.

Hafthor Bjornsson

People try to be rude against me, my family, my girlfriend, anything. People like to be mean to people through social media.

Hafthor Bjornsson

If there's anything that offends me, especially if it's towards my family, I just block them. I don't accept that. I don't get upset because I like to focus on the positive.

Hafthor Bjornsson

I need to work on my endurance.

Hafthor Bjornsson

My mindset has changed to think about what I can eat to become a better athlete, not just a bigger one.

Hafthor Bjornsson