Eddie - Strongman Page #10

[commentator] Coming in sixth place...

-Eddie Hall. Sixth place.

-[crowd applauds]

[Eddie] Just being a f***ing number is...

is f***ing embarrassing.

Sixth place. It's f***ing dog sh*t.

[commentator] Now we have a tie

for fourth place. So that means--

[Eddie] You know, all these guys

like Brian and Zydrunas...

would have a good

six month lead up into this.

A good solid six... You know,

training, heavy f***ing training.

[commentator]

Zydrunas Savickas. Second place.

[applause]

[Eddie] I wanna be great.

I wanna be famous.

I wanna be number one

in the world in Strongman.

Other people are just happy

having a few kids and f***ing...

you know, dying happy that way. That's

fine, you know. Everyone's different.

[commentator] And the winner

of the 2015 Arnold Strongman Competition:

-Brian Shaw!

-[crowd cheering]

[Eddie] You know, people like me

are here to be legends. People need...

People need legends to people

to look up to inspire...

inspire the kids.

This is what keeps the world evolving.

Hey, Thor.

-Congrats man.

-Were sh*t. Both sh*t.

-Both sh*t.

-I've heard a lot--

-Yeah, I've been the same here.

-F***ing... Makes you train harder, mate.

[Eddie] My aim going into that

was to be in the top three.

Didn't achieve that.

So, for me that is a big hit.

I went straight from the Arnold's, Ohio...

to Australia,

to another Arnold's Classic in Melbourne.

I've got to get three planes

to get here from Ohio.

Uhm, one of them is 17 hours.

Which is actually the best flight

out of all three flights.

Tony Doherty, the organizer,

said to me:
"Colin...

You're not longer on at 1 pm on Sunday,

you're on tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock."

[muffled speech]

Phoned Eddie up.

"Tomorrow morning?

Deadlift for a record?

Oh man, I'm so beaten up

from the Arnold's.

All right then. I'll give it a go."

I thought:
"Come on."

[Eddie] Landed, had tea. Pretty much

eleven o'clock the next morning....

was asked to pull world record deadlift.

[muffled speech]

[commentator]

Going for world record, Eddie Hall.

Four six two kilograms.

That is 1020 pounds.

One thousand and twenty pounds.

Fifty years of weightlifting

and this will be the biggest ever lift.

[inspirational music]

[Eddie] I've got to be honest.

There was doubt there.

You know, there was doubt there.

[Colin] Eddie turned to me: "Colin...

I don't know if I can do this

or not. I'm tired.

I gotta give it a go now or..."

I could see in his face he was beaten.

[commentator] Good lift.

[muffled speech]

Sod it. You know,

I've got to give it a go. I got to.

[commentator] From Stoke-on-Trent...

to break the world record...

by one throwback...

one thousand eighteen point five pounds.

He's about to do it.

Eddie put his hands on the bar...

[man] Come on! Switch on!

Break the record!

[crowd cheering]

He was just rising.

And going up past his knees.

Come on, Eddie. Give it a good attempt.

[Eddie] I heard the crowd getting louder

and louder and louder.

Just as I lifted that weight,

Arnold Schwarzenegger...

rocked up by my side...

screaming in my ear to do that lift.

Bloody hell. It's going past his thighs.

He's locked out.

[dramatic music]

[crowd cheering]

[music crescendo]

[crowd cheering wildly]

Yeah! Whoa!

[Arnold] Eddie. You're the man.

[Eddie] It was genuinely, er...

just the most amazing moment of my life.

-Thank you, Arnold.

-You had another ten pounds in there.

-Yeah, at least.

-I'm telling you. Unbelievable.

Look how pumped up you are.

-Thank you.

-Ready to go.

-Thank you.

-Very nice. Very nice.

Ladies and gentlemen,

let's hear it. Eddie Hall.

-World Champ.

-[crowd cheering]

Yes! Boom.

-Lightweights.

-How much training did you do for this?

Literally...

Three hundred and sixty-five days a year.

Everything in my mind is just for this,

you know, one world record.

It's upset me so much.

Last year I did it. I dropped it.

And being allowed to do it now is amazing.

You're a great winner. A champion.

Someone that has failed

in various different events.

Every time you got up again.

You got going.

That's what winners do.

They get up and they get going.

Congratulations

and I hope you're saying...

[both] I'll be back.

[crowd cheering]

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen,

Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Who is the only person on this planet

that has done what you've done?

Me. I just pulled 462 kilo.

With probably the shittiest bar.

With the shittiest bar

in the shittiest circumstances.

-With lots of pressure.

-With lots of pressure.

And I did it. F***ing easy.

We never share records, huh?

-I don't share records.

-Yours. Yours.

I don't share records

-Roll on World's Strongest Man.

-[mumbled speech]

[Arnold] It's the real deal.

I mean, there's no trickery.

It is all pure strength.

And I think this is why,

as you can see today...

the... real, big standing ovation...

was for the Strongman.

Every time the people see these guys

moving this huge amount of weight...

I mean, they go crazy.

I'll probably be telling

that story till... till I die.

You know, that'll be

definitely a down the pub sort of...

You know, "you-listen-to-me-young-man"

sort of story. Definitely.

-That was very, very special.

-Yeah. That was special.

So... Congratulations. That's f***ing...

-kind of, kind of amazing. Isn't it?

-'Cept I didn't take off my box this year.

Sure did feel awful good...

seeing that happen.

And you know,

I said to Eddie afterwards...

"I think... this is worth more than

a World's Strongest Man title.

You know.

This is something special, Eddie.

You'll go down in history for this."

And...in a way it's quite good

he doesn't realize that

cause he's still hungry for more.

And that's quite good.

You know, once you fill the hunger up...

he might go off and just drink beer

and do nothing. And I'd lose Eddie.

Which will be really sad.

I genuinely believe...

in fact, I know, I will win

World's Strongest Man one day.

Will it be next year? I hope so.

I don't know when it's gonna happen.

But I know it's gonna happen.

All I've gotta concentrate on,

is beating...myself and Thor.

If he ever gets

the World's Strongest Man title...

I hope it's enough to fill that hole.

Because he might get there and realize

he's just Eddie Hall from Stoke.

And that's when we'll find out

the true test of his character.

He's proved he can be the best...

at what he does.

Maybe just for that moment.

-Daddy!

-Hey, baby. Hallo!

-What's he wearing?

-[Alex laughs]

-Hallo. Is he wearing your ears? Hi, baby.

-You okay?

Let me in. Hey, guys.

How you doing?

The most important things

in life, to me...

are...

are family.

Definitely. Number one, family for me.

Uhm...

Number two is to do what you wanna do.

You know, don't let

anyone tell you otherwise.

If you wanna be the world's strongest man,

go out and be World's Strongest Man.

Someone says you can't do something,

go out and f***ing do it.

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