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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.

It was while I was in the mental hospital that I got my letter from the British Olympic Association saying, 'Congratulations. You've been picked to go to the Olympic Games.' I kept stressing I wasn't a patient.

I was like the George Clooney of the ski business.

I was the best ski jumper in the United Kingdom.

No matter how many people say you can't do something, use that as inspiration to prove them wrong.

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.

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

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.

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.

It's nice and restful, plastering.

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.

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

Resilience can go an awful long way.

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.

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.

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.

My mum was wonderful.

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

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.'

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.

I was a true amateur and embodied what the Olympic spirit is all about. To me, competing was all that mattered.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I wish they'd build a ski jump at the Grand Canyon; it'd be fantastic.

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.

If you have got a dream and you've got ambition, then go for it. You know, unless you try, you'll never know.

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.

The failures are the people who never get off their bums.

In my case, there are only two kinds of hope - Bob Hope and no hope.

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.

You can't have Alan Partridge as Eddie the Eagle!

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.

Getting to the Olympic Games was my gold medal.

I made my dream come true despite all the obstacles - no money, no training, no skis, no snow.

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.

Most people should be given a chance to compete in the Olympic Games.

I have a big chin. Thick glasses.

People really aren't interested in the way I look. It's my personality they like.

I don't want to look like Michael Jackson.

Some people thought I was bringing the sport down. I don't think so. I was the best and only jumper my country had.

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.

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.

I travelled the world because of the way people saw me at the Olympics.

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.

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.

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.'

I want to be recognised as exemplifying the Olympic spirit - one of the last true Olympians.

You have to take the rough with the smooth - that's what ski-jumping is all about. You always expect the worst.

I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.

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.

I'm the Eagle: I can fly.

I have never, ever considered myself a failure.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People still think I'm a bit of a buffoon - not really an athlete.

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.

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.

I don't regard myself as an entertainer. I don't think that's where my talents lie. It always feels a bit uncomfortable.

For me, I was never someone who wanted to hold on to the celebrity image.

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

I was living on a loaf of bread a week.

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.

The births of my two girls were wonderful - I felt proud to have helped bring new life into this world.

I'm a positive person who likes to have fun and get the best out of every day.

I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him!

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.

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.

I always do the very best I can, and I should be given the opportunity and the right to represent my country.

The FIS, BSF, and British Olympic Association have been trying to stop me competing internationally. They don't like the fact that I laugh and have fun and entertain the crowd.

Maybe I am a little bit of a clown, but I am also a serious sportsman.

People seemed to appreciate how much I wanted to pursue something I loved. They seemed to understand how much ski jumping meant to me.

If there were some people who considered me a joke, I'm sorry about that. But I did not do it for any other reason except that I loved to ski jump, and I had hopes that by my doing it, other people in my country would take up the sport.

When I trained with the Japanese team, there we'd be singing Oasis songs at the top of our voices at the top of the jumps. People thought we were daft.

When people make fun, it doesn't bother me. I've always enjoyed a laugh.

I think because I'm so naturally happy and unaffected and open, people thought I didn't take the jumping seriously. You're up that high, believe me - you take it very seriously.

People say I wasn't a real athlete, but I trained hard. It's possible to take something seriously and still have fun at it, you know.

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.

Sport on TV is so boring.

For all my 'Eddie the Eagle' goofing around before the camera while in training for the Calgary Olympics in 1988, I was never less than 100 per cent serious on every single jump.

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!

I was an expert skier who set his sights on going to the 1988 Olympics in Canada to represent Britain, and went from novice ramps to the 120-metre jump in five months. That's possible only with utter focus.

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

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