Eddie - Strongman Page #8

I've pulled ligaments and torn muscles.

[Magnus] I've torn my knees,

I've torn a bicep.

[Geoff] A new hip,

operations on my knee,

abdominal operations.

I've got problems with my vertebrae.

I've sort of half torn hamstrings,

I've torn pecs.

I've had sort of half detachments

on my triceps.

Compressed nerves...in my spine.

-[clears throat]

-Basically, I'm buggered.

You end up getting

to a point where you just...

you know, a little bit of pain is normal.

You know, you just don't even

acknowledge it. It's there.

And in some case, some people

go further than that and lose their lives.

Britain's Strongest Man, 2012.

There was an incident where a young man...

actually collapsed after an event

and had a cardiac arrest.

We worked on his heart

for about six to seven minutes.

Thank God

we had an emergency doctor there.

When somebody shouts: "Begin CPR"

at you, you know, it's a bit of a shock.

"What was that again?" You know fine well

what an emergency doctor means

as he ran off

and got his heart defibrillator.

Ping! Kid came back to life again.

[Eddie] This guy was...

miraculously, you know, revived,

sent off in an ambulance,

fully recovered and is alive today.

You know, but if it wasn't

for people like Colin being there...

who has got a little bit of know-how

how to keep people alive,

-[melancholic music]

-that guy would have died.

Genui-- He wouldn't be here now.

-[whistling]

-Viking power!

Viking power!

[Geoff] And then hearing...

that Jon Pall died in the gym.

And it reminded me of what Jon Pall

said to me. He says "I'm gonna die early."

My uncle died. I've got the same...

genetic...frailty.

And he says:
"I won't be around after 30."

And he wasn't.

To me, he was a mentor,

a friend...And, uh...

an all-around great guy

and I learned a lot from him.

[Eddie] You know,

it's very sad that the guy died

at such... so young.

You know, he had

an amazing future ahead of him

and he definitely touched

a lot of souls when he...

when he did leave this world.

[Geoff] He's in Valhalla

and he'll be long remembered.

[birds chirping]

Being such...huge, big strong guys...

the...

quickest and easiest thing

is to say that we're on steroids.

I mean, drugs in sport is...

you know, plagues sport.

And...you know...

I competed at the Olympics.

I competed in...

Strongman myself. So, I've got

a pretty good idea of what people do.

Do you know what I believe?

I believe...ability...

is far and away the most important thing

and determination to back it up.

You know, I've never...

actually seen anyone...

take any

performance enhancing drugs, but...

I'm sure as with a lot of sports

and especially...

strength sports, it does go on.

All steroids purely do, is purely

help you with the recovery process.

Okay? So, they help you enable you

to lift heavy weights...

more frequently, more regularly without

feeling fatigue. Without feeling drained.

Without the risk of injury.

It's for injury prevention.

Good aminos, that's all it is.

If you research it and do your homework...

anything can be used safely.

You have to take it responsibly.

You can't... It's the same as anything.

You start overdosing on MultiVites,

you're gonna get a secondary...

you know, problems as a result of it.

End of the day,

we want the biggest, strongest...

man alive to lift

that biggest, strongest weight ever.

So, why not?

If they're gonna go balls out and do it...

why not let 'em do it?

Crack on. They're not...

doing nothing to hurt anyone else.

They wanna be the best.

They wanna be the strongest.

So, why not?

I don't believe that you can win

World's Strongest Man

without taking

performance enhancing drugs.

The Arnold Classic is basically an expo...

of fitness, strength...physiques.

You know, it's an all-round sort of

get together and celebrate...

the ambition, you know,

the achievements of all these people.

The Arnold's Club

is a brutally strong contest.

It doesn't have the name

of the World's Strongest Man,

but some people consider that to be...

the strongest contest in the world.

The person that is the strongest man

on the planet, would normally win.

As in Zydrunas.

He's won it maybe seven times.

[Eddie] You're in front of a crowd of...

two hundred thousand people.

And the adrenalin from that is amazing.

It's all televised around the world and...

organized by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

And it's just one of those events where

you've got...

You do nothing

but feel privileged to be a part of.

Whoever wins this is...

is the world's strongest man.

Even though it might not be the title.

No, the flight wasn't that bad, really.

I had three seats to myself, so...

As long as I've got

my bollocks spaced, I'm pretty happy.

You know, take away my bollock's space...

and I get pretty angry.

So, as long as I can sort of

just open my legs a bit

and let my bollocks breathe...

not too bad.

[reflective music]

Narcissism...is a...

is a trait that goes through

many successful people.

Uhm, people get mixed up

between confidence and arrogance.

Narcissistic people think they're God

and better than everyone else.

Uhm, but that's also what pushes them.

Arrogance...is thinking you're better

than everyone else.

Confidence is knowing

you're better than everyone else.

But to be confident...

to get to that confidence,

you've got to be arrogant.

I just found out, just by chance really...

someone called me a narcissistic prick...

on Facebook once.

I looked it up. I was like...

"F***ing Bob on. I am."

You know, I am a narcissistic prick.

And more.

You've got to be a narcissistic prick

to get to that number one spot.

And that's what keeps you training harder

and keeps you doing the right thing

and eating the right foods.

And it's the arrogance that gets you

to that number one spot.

And that's when the confidence comes.

Arnold Schwarzenegger,

he was arrogant as f***.

F***ing most arrogant bastard

on the planet.

But he's got to number one

and he's a movie star...

and he's f***ing amazing.

Everyone loves him.

And now he can be confident.

Twenty, 30 years,

everyone's called him an arrogant bastard.

Now he's got confidence.

Do you think he gives a f***

how arrogant he was back then?

And I bet you his 70, 80 million dollars,

he doesn't give a f***.

-Hey, that's nice.

-You gotta have them...here.

-F***ing, that's a small gun. Do you mind?

-Yeah. Not a problem.

-Nothing in the barrel, no?

-Nothing in the barrel.

That's tiny.

-[barber] Twelve shots.

-[Eddie] Twelve shots? That's good.

You f***ing need 12 for some

f***ing c*nts, don't you?

-That's right.

-Someone like me.

-Someone big enough.

-[laughter]

I wasn't gonna go there,

but you go ahead.

[interviewer] My chance. Brits ahoy.

[woman] You know, it's very congested--

[woman 2] Ten slips of paper

in here. One through ten...for the order.

This'll be the order

for the first event tomorrow.

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