Eddie the Eagle Top Famous 69 Quotes

Michael Edwards, who was born on December 5, 1963, is a well-known English ski-jumper. He was also an Olympian in 1988, and the first participant to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping since 1928. Between 1988 and 2001, he held the British ski jumping record.

In addition, he competed in amateur speed skiing and running, and he set a stunt jumping world record by jumping over six buses. In 2016, Taron Egerton portrayed him in the biographical picture Eddie the Eagle.

Let’s take a look at his top 69 motivational remarks below.

1. “No matter how many people say you can’t do something, use that as inspiration to prove them wrong.”― Eddie the Eagle

2. “After my ski jumping career finished, I went back to school to study law, and now I travel between five to 20 times a year doing after-dinner speaking, motivational talks, appearances, openings, TV and radio shows.”― Eddie the Eagle

3. “I’m the Eagle: I can fly.”― Eddie the Eagle

4. “If you have got a dream and you’ve got ambition, then go for it. You know, unless you try, you’ll never know.”― Eddie the Eagle

5. “I have never, ever considered myself a failure.”― Eddie the Eagle

6. “Getting to the Olympic Games was my gold medal.”― Eddie the Eagle

7. “I had no money, no training facilities, no snow, no ski jumps, no trainer, but I still managed to ski jump for my country – and getting there was my gold medal.”― Eddie the Eagle

8. “I’m a positive person who likes to have fun and get the best out of every day.”― Eddie the Eagle

9. “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.”― Eddie the Eagle

10. “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.”― Eddie the Eagle

11. “I wish they’d build a ski jump at the Grand Canyon; it’d be fantastic.”― Eddie the Eagle

12. “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.”― Eddie the Eagle

13. “The only airline I avoid like the plague is Ryanair. I don’t like that, when you book, there are then all of these little extras to pay for, and you end up paying more than just flying with British Airways.”― Eddie the Eagle

14. “RESILIENCE CAN GO AN AWFUL LONG WAY.”― EDDIE THE EAGLE

15. “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.”― Eddie the Eagle

16. “In my case, there are only two kinds of hope – Bob Hope and no hope.”― Eddie the Eagle

17. “The failures are the people who never get off their bums.”― Eddie the Eagle

18. “Both parents were hard-working and made me work for my pocket money by doing household chores. That taught me the value of money and gave me a strong work ethic.”― Eddie the Eagle

19. “Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?”― Eddie the Eagle

20. “I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.”― Eddie the Eagle

21. “I have a big chin. Thick glasses.”― Eddie the Eagle

22. “I did a tandem parachute jump when I opened a golf course in Atlanta, Georgia. I jumped out of a plane at 15,000 feet to land on the first tee, and then I played a couple of holes with golfer Arnold Palmer. That was brilliant.”― Eddie the Eagle

23. “I’ve had an operation on my jaw – I don’t have the big jaw anymore – and I’ve also had an operation on my eyes.”― Eddie the Eagle

24. “I made my dream come true despite all the obstacles – no money, no training, no skis, no snow.”― Eddie the Eagle

25. “I want to prove to the skeptics that I’m not a clown. I’m very serious about what I do. I want to be a good ski jumper who has a sense of humor.”― Eddie the Eagle

26. “You have to take the rough with the smooth – that’s what ski-jumping is all about. You always expect the worst.”― Eddie the Eagle

27. “There are so many world-class athletes who are great at their sport, but they’re so boring. They don’t talk, and they can’t be interviewed very well.”― Eddie the Eagle

28. “When people make fun, it doesn’t bother me. I’ve always enjoyed a laugh.”― Eddie the Eagle

29. “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!”― Eddie the Eagle

30. “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.”― Eddie the Eagle

31. “Some people thought I wasn’t taking the sport seriously because I was always laughing and having fun, but I loved my skiing, I loved my jumping, and I thought, ‘Well, why not have a smile on my face when I’m doing something that I really, really love doing,’ and that’s how I was.”― Eddie the Eagle

32. “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!”― Eddie the Eagle

33. “I ALWAYS SAY MY FIRST JOB IS MY BUILDING TRADE. THE REST COMES AND GOES.”― EDDIE THE EAGLE

34. “When I plummeted into infamy in the Calgary Olympics, I never thought that a film would be made about my life.”― Eddie the Eagle

35. “On the street, I’ll hear, ‘You made the Olympics for me,’ or ‘I love what you represented.’ Only occasionally is it, ‘You were a flop, an also-ran, a loser.’”― Eddie the Eagle

36. “When I started competing, I was so broke that I had to tie my helmet with a piece of string. On one jump, the string snapped, and my helmet carried on farther than I did. I may have been the first ski jumper ever beaten by his gear.”― Eddie the Eagle

37. “I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.”― Eddie the Eagle

38. “I want my life to move on. On the other hand, I can’t say no to offers, not when I’m getting £50,000 a year to be Eddie the Eagle.”― Eddie the Eagle

39. “Americans are very much ‘Win! Win! Win!’ In England, we don’t give a fig whether you win. It’s great if you do, but we appreciate those who don’t.”― Eddie the Eagle

40. “You can’t have Alan Partridge as Eddie the Eagle!”― Eddie the Eagle

41. “I would never think of asking a girl out on the High Street or the disco or at school. But on the ski slope, I would chat to all the girls.”― Eddie the Eagle

42. “Most people should be given a chance to compete in the Olympic Games.”― Eddie the Eagle

43. “People really aren’t interested in the way I look. It’s my personality they like.”― Eddie the Eagle

44. “I don’t want to look like Michael Jackson.”― Eddie the Eagle

45. “Some people thought I was bringing the sport down. I don’t think so. I was the best and only jumper my country had.”― Eddie the Eagle

46. “I actually had huge problems with my glasses steaming up all the time. I had to train very carefully around the limitations caused by wearing them.”― Eddie the Eagle

47. “If you are in your sport for your country, you should be able to go to the Olympic Games and represent your sport for your country bringing people together in the interests of sport. It’s a fantastic Olympic ideal, and I uphold it as much as I can.”― Eddie the Eagle

48. “I travelled the world because of the way people saw me at the Olympics.”― Eddie the Eagle

49. “I was exemplifying the Olympian who took up a challenge as a sportsman, without a trainer, in a country without mountains and without snow. And, inside of two years, I was representing my country.”― Eddie the Eagle

50. “LIFE IS GOOD, AND I’M HAPPY, AND I DON’T KNOW THAT IT WOULD BE AS GOOD IF I’D BEEN THE WINNER IN CALGARY.”― EDDIE THE EAGLE

51. “It takes a lot of guts to jump. If people criticise, I would give them a set of skis and say, ‘Do it yourself then.’”― Eddie the Eagle

52. “I want to be recognised as exemplifying the Olympic spirit – one of the last true Olympians.”― Eddie the Eagle

53. “I can’t explain my popularity. I suppose I’m just an ordinary bloke, and a lot of people see a little bit of Eddie in themselves.”― Eddie the Eagle

54. “It had been a dream of mine to go to an Olympic Games since I was about seven years old. I didn’t know I’d do it ski jumping, but that’s how it turned out.”― Eddie the Eagle

55. “We were not rich by any means. My dad was a plasterer and worked long hours – I hardly ever saw him when I was growing up. He had always gone to work before I woke up, and usually, I would be in bed before he came home.”― Eddie the Eagle

56. “My mother looked after me full-time when I was young, but as soon as I started school, she got a job in an office.”― Eddie the Eagle

57. “I was a latchkey kid. Every afternoon, I would walk home from school, let myself in, make myself a banana buttie, and watch telly until Mum came home.”― Eddie the Eagle

58. “People still think I’m a bit of a buffoon – not really an athlete.”― Eddie the Eagle

59. “My dentist said my teeth were wearing away at the back because I couldn’t bite. My top jaw was broken and brought forward, and my bottom jaw was broken and put back.”― Eddie the Eagle

60. “A lot of people think I’m really outgoing and confident, but I’m not. I’d much rather sit in a corner and read my book and my paper. I’m quite happy with my own company.”― Eddie the Eagle

61. “I don’t regard myself as an entertainer. I don’t think that’s where my talents lie. It always feels a bit uncomfortable.”― Eddie the Eagle

62. “For me, I was never someone who wanted to hold on to the celebrity image.”― Eddie the Eagle

63. “I liked being Eddie the Eagle, but I also like being Michael Edwards, plasterer and general builder.”― Eddie the Eagle

64. “I was living on a loaf of bread a week.”― Eddie the Eagle

65. “I wore No. 24 at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada – one bib on the back and one on the front – and those are like my medals.”― Eddie the Eagle

66. “The births of my two girls were wonderful – I felt proud to have helped bring new life into this world.”― Eddie the Eagle

67. “I’ve hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don’t understand the obsession with him!”― Eddie the Eagle

68. “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.”― Eddie the Eagle

69. “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.”― Eddie the Eagle