Eddie the Eagle Quotes

I could have gone professional, but I'm not giving up on my dream.

I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.

At the end of the day, of course I want to continue to be successful at Madrid; I want to be important here. I have never hidden from that.

I want to go down as one of the best, and that's not just going to happen in one day.

I want to be remembered as the greatest quarterback who ever played. You have to go out and prove it first, and then you have to go out and work hard.

I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.

What do you want to be? If you don't put the work in, you're not going to be able to be it.

I didn't really have a plan B. My plan B was work harder and try to make it in the NFL, and that's what I want to do. I put everything I had into making it in this league, and that's why I'm here.

I always knew I wanted to work hard at something.

I just want to be as successful as I can in football.

My work means everything to me.

I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If you're not into it, you're not there. And the film industry is all the more harsh in these cases, perhaps because it's a business of the limelight.

I don't mean this to sound cliche, but it's really about the work for me. I like to keep working on things.

I always want to work.

I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.

I told myself I'd stay in until I reached major, and then go on and do something else.

The most important thing I have learned from the people I've worked with is that you have to love what you do. That passion will drive you anywhere you want to go.

Eventually, I would love to be on my deathbed and looked at as an icon. Right now I'm still at the baby stages of my career. But that is the goal.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

I try to be known more for my work than for anything else.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

I have a career, I worked so hard for it.

I'd started working when I was 21 and had been very determined about my career, very focused, even as a little kid, so it was something I had been working at for a long time.

I've made a commitment to concentrate on my career as an entertainer.

In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.