Which are your favorite Eddie Hall quotes?
Eddie Hall is an English former professional strongman. He is best known for his incredible feats in the weightlifting sport.
Hall has won multiple occasions both the UK’s Strongest Man and England’s Strongest Man titles. He is the only man to ever deadlift 500 kilograms (1,102 pounds).
Here’s a collection of the best Eddie Hall quotes:
50 Amazing Eddie Hall Quotes
1. “I was expelled from school at 14, and whilst everyone else was studying for their GCSEs, I got a membership for that gym, and I just started lifting weights. So while everyone else was in school, I was in the gym sort of bulking up, and when I got to 17, I got a full-time job.” – Eddie Hall
2. “I was slamming some weights on a leg press. And – I don’t know if I had a semi or what -but I trapped my d**k in between the plates and I ended getting five stitches.” – Eddie Hall
3. “I came out a different athlete, an all-rounder rather than just a static monster.” – Eddie Hall
4. “We take the piss out of each other. I’ve brought them to life with the British banter… I enjoyed it that being the bad boy British guy of the show.” – Eddie Hall
5. “You’ve made it open and then you’ve got to achieve that goal, otherwise, you look a dickhead you know! You look stupid and that’s why I’ve set my goals, I’ve been very loud about them, but then I’ve backed them all up because that’s my biggest fear, saying I’m going to do something and then not doing it. It’s one of my biggest fears and I don’t want to look an idiot.” – Eddie Hall
6. “Because fats are so calorie-dense – there are nine calories per gram of fat – at 400 grams of fat, you’re getting a lot of calories in. It’s so easy to digest fat, too. That was my fuel.” – Eddie Hall
7. “My workouts are based on very heavy, fast movements using weights, the science behind it being that the faster you move a weight, the more fast-twitch fibers you rip and then repair.” – Eddie Hall
8. “I tend to wake up around 7, and I start the day with a protein shake.” – Eddie Hall
9. “The mental capacity to be the best, you’ve got to be mentally strong.” – Eddie Hall
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10. “We’ve got all the tools we’d ever need to make the perfect human – and obviously we surpass him – but what Paul did 50 years ago is f**king incredible.” – Eddie Hall
11. “For the people that keep asking why I don’t compete at the World’s Strongest Man anymore, simple: I choose to live a healthier life now and enjoy the fruits of my labour.” – Eddie Hall
12. “Ya know self-belief is seen as arrogant these days, but I say you have to be arrogant and have self-belief else you’d never achieve anything. There’s a big difference between arrogance and confidence.” – Eddie Hall
13. “I went away and all I trained for was the moving events, my static strength was so high, no one was even close, even now. And I just realized I’ve got to be able to move, I’ve got to be able to pull trucks, so that’s what I did.” – Eddie Hall
14. “I won the World Strongest Man and that’s a lifetime achievement in itself but there are 19 other men that one of the World’s Strongest Man.” – Eddie Hall
15. “I think it’s all about goal setting, the number one rule of goal setting is to be public – tell a friend, tell a family member, tell your fans, put it on social media, you know, because that sets it in stone.” – Eddie Hall
16. “Ever since I was a child I’ve dreamt of being the World’s Strongest Man, and to actually accomplish it is something else, it really is something else – total euphoria!” – Eddie Hall
17. “The pressure on my body was surreal. I passed out after. I had nose bleeds. It’s not healthy doing something like that.” – Eddie Hall
18. “They’re all hard, you know, they’re all, you know, amazing feats of strength world records.” – Eddie Hall
19. “The worst injury I’ve ever had in my personal life is trapping my own d**k between two metal plates.” – Eddie Hall
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20. “You don’t have to be a genetic freak to be the strongest man in the world, you’ve just got to be the hardest worker and that’s what I am.” – Eddie Hall
21. “I’m not going to walk around at 28 stone until I’m 48. My plan is to win the World’s Strongest Man, walk away gracefully, and live a long life. ” – Eddie Hall
22. “No event in strongman competitions lasts longer than 40 seconds, so by swimming in fast bursts, my body is conditioned for the level of speed and power it needs.” – Eddie Hall
23. “And then I made the commitment to become The World’s, Strongest Man. And I said out loud, put it on social media, told my friends and family. And again people laughed. That added small fuel to the fire for me and ten years later to the day I won The World Strongest Man.” – Eddie Hall
24. “I think one of the hardest was by a guy called Paul Anderson. He was renowned for lifting up 19 people in a carousel lift with his legs. So, we replicated that and I cracked my back. It was pretty hard to walk for a couple of days after that.” – Eddie Hall
25. “I’ve won it at a time when it’s at its best, the competition is rife, you’ve got giants like Brian Shaw, Hafthor Bjornsson, both of them 6ft 9′, 6ft 10′ and then you’ve got little old me who’s 6ft 3′, so you know, it’s definitely a nice time to win the World’s Strongest Man, because there are some absolute freaky huge guys out there.” – Eddie Hall
26. “The swimming helped me move over to the strongman, I had these huge lungs, a huge heart, it gave me the dedication, you know.” – Eddie Hall
27. “It’s that great feeling, like the first man on the moon, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. And now, I’m the first to deadlift half a ton. It’s history, and I’m very proud to be a part of it.” – Eddie Hall
28. “We all want to be that number one.” – Eddie Hall
29. “To be able to swim for twenty hours a week, to stare at the bottom of a swimming pool, you’ve got to be disciplined, but I used that discipline and moved it over to the strongman and you need it, it’s not just lifting weights, it’s the diet, it’s the recovery, it’s everything, you want to get everything right if you want to be number 1.” – Eddie Hall
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30. “I feel as though I have done the biggest lift in human history. I lifted the halftime deadlift off the floor, 1102 pounds. I did that back in 2016. And no one still to this day has even come close.” – Eddie Hall
31. “When people say that something can’t be done, there’s no better feeling than proving someone wrong and when you’ve got so many people to prove wrong there’s so much glory in it.” – Eddie Hall
32. “I’ve trained that hard I’ve made myself ill, I’ve caught meningitis, septicemia, so there’s a dangerous side to the sport where you wear yourself down, you burn the candle at both ends.” – Eddie Hall
33. “During the actual show, we were actually pretty lucky. We filmed seven episodes. And you know, that basically means at least seven world records were attempted or broken. And we’re very lucky, you know, other than the odd pulled back or, strained bicep I think we did pretty well. No one got seriously, hurt.” – Eddie Hall
34. “I went away and I trained – I pulled trucks, I flipped tires, I lifted atlas stones, I ran with weights, I trained my arse off and the results speak for themselves.” – Eddie Hall
35. “When I was five years old, I remember watching The World Strongest Man with my parents in the front living room.” – Eddie Hall
36. “After swimming, I have breakfast. I start with a big bowl of porridge – say, 100 grams of oats – then some cereal, five or so pieces of fruit, an oat bar, a liter of fruit juice, and a big bag of beef jerky.” – Eddie Hall
37. “When I was working a full-time job, seventy hours a week with security work as well and training twenty hours a week – I was doing a hundred hours a week at work and training, but I had to do it to get to where I was, I had to do it!” – Eddie Hall
38. “Sometimes I’ll have cheesecake – just anything that’s high calorie, because that’s what I need for the training.” – Eddie Hall
39. “Well I was a National Champion swimmer when I was a kid, I mean from age five I trained 15 – 20 hours a week, so I’ve always been fitter, stronger, more mobile than anyone else around me and I think that’s stuck with me.” – Eddie Hall
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40. “During training, I’m eating raw steak, it’s just a constant, it’s a non-stop game. It’s one of the hardest things I’ve found with the strongman is getting the consumption in, getting the amount of food I needed in my body was the hardest thing.” – Eddie Hall
41. “I taught myself how to lift weights, I did my own nutrition, I did my own coaching. It’s a one-man band, you’ve just got to get on with things.” – Eddie Hall
42. “You have to be a 100 percent selfish, nothing else matters apart from yourself when you’re training to be number 1 in the world.” – Eddie Hall
43. “I remember saying to my Mum and Dad that I’m going to be the world strongest one day. Everyone just burst out laughing.” – Eddie Hall
44. “No, well Hafthor decided he’d been hard done to for some reason, he claimed some trickery of some sort but at the end of the day he got beat fair and square in a strongman competition and he couldn’t take it.” – Eddie Hall
45. “Coffee… The caffeine in your morning coffee stops an enzyme called amylase from working correctly, which is located in your mouth and gut, and breaks down starchy carbs.” – Eddie Hall
46. “If there’s one role that was made for me, it’d be Henry VIII, definitely. He’s a big powerful man very demanding. Though obviously having six wives which I’m not too keen on, to be honest.” – Eddie Hall
47. “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day; this is where most people will make their first big mistake if they’re trying to lose weight.” – Eddie Hall
48. “I think the swimming set me up for life, I really do. I think it gave me the tools, it gave me the lung capacity, it gave me the heart function, but most of all it taught me discipline because in strongman there are no coaches, there’s no one telling what to do, what to eat.” – Eddie Hall
49. “I remember watching World’s Strongest Man as a kid, and I was just obsessed with it. At sort of five, six years old. Just watching these huge guys lift planes, pulls trains, lift stones – I was just mesmerized by it.” – Eddie Hall
50. “Yes, I’m doing damage to my body now. The human body isn’t designed to be this size.” – Eddie Hall
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