Eddie The Eagle Quotes

I may be in last place, it may have been a poor jump, but everyone seems to be pleased. Why? Because of the Olympic ideal – ‘The most important thing is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

As Eddie Edwards went flying down that ski-slope in Calgary it may have been a small jump for the Olympics but it was a giant step for the Eagle.

The medical profession has seen quite a bit of me over the years. My case history would make any surgeon blink in disbelief. On the way to the Olympics, I’ve had broken arms, hands, fingers, feet, a fractured jaw and neck and even a broken back.

Time did exist here, in small amounts (well some of the time) – and there were feint eddies and currents of time here, things that were barely tangible. Feint forces of the universe they were, nearly indiscernible from the nothingness like a warm breeze on a hot summer night. How long he had been here, he knew not – but he was slowly learning to master these barely tangible waves like a new surfer with one foot on the sandy beach and the other on a shiny new board of Hatred. Revenge splashed around his feet like the cold waves of the ocean of Time. Nearby, two other inmates collided with each other, bounced apart spread-eagled and spiraled off into the distance in infinite slowness. The Wetsuit of Insanity clung to his spiritual body, isolating him from the timelessness that seemed to exist here. A wind of Change blew at him from behind and he pushed off from the beach with iron determination and a mental clarity hereto before unknown to him. Something in the microcosm that didn’t even have a name went ‘bling’ and against all the laws of probability, Brad Xyl opened his eyes.

Baron de Coubertin, father of the modern Games, saw the Olympics as a chance to recognize and reward the struggle not the triumph. Former President of the Games, Avery Brundage, described them as ‘the greatest social force in the world’, seeing them as a revolt against twentieth-century materialism and discrimination – of whatever kind. To me, Eddie Edwards, they were, quite simply, the greatest days of my entire life.

Since the establishment of the lifesaving “Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program” in 1988, more than twenty-eight million pre-kindergarten to fourth-grade children have learned what to do if they see a firearm in an unsupervised situation. • During the past seven years, “Refuse to Be a Victim” seminars have helped more than fifteen thousand men and women develop their own personal safety plan using common-sense strategies.

At the time, we had one of those TV’s operated by coins which are inserted in a box at the side. The three of us were sat side by side on the sofa as the PC delivered his stern lecture. ‘Only dial 999 if it’s an absolute emergency,’ he chastized. ‘It was an emergency,’ I shouted. ‘The coins ran out and we lost our picture.’ The policeman and mum had a job not to laugh. They saw the funny side thankfully but we had a telling off we didn’t forget in a hurry.

I’d seen the jumpers before and never given them much thought, but the jumps were easier to get to and what’s more they were free. So off I set to have a go at jumping.

You are the Eddie the Eagle of sport.

My first accident was when I ended up head first in the coal bucket thanks to Duncan using my carry-cot as a trampoline. There was no damage done that day. I’ve got a hard head you know, which is just as well when I think of all the scrapes I’ve got myself into.