Eddie the Eagle Quotes

My dad is my rock. Every single penny he earns goes into my dream.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Traveling gives you some perspective of what the rest of the world is like. I think that having the courage to step out of the norm is the most important thing.

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

I love traveling. I love just going about on my own, feeling I have no roots.

I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.

There's something cool about traveling when you're young. There's a sense of camaraderie. You learn more about yourself.

Traveling is difficult when you go for long stretches at a time, but you always come back refreshed, feeling that you've accomplished something. I'm on my knees before I go anywhere in this world.

I would love to bring my mum to see me in shows and travel Europe with me because she has done so, so much for me.

I was doing everything that a kid would be doing anyway, but on top of that, I was able to fly to different cities.

Growing up, money is important. And now I have a career where I'm making enough money to live. But I really want to give it to my parents, my family, charities, and people around me.

I've been on my own and traveling for years now.

When I was a kid, my parents were happy to buy me clothes; they provided for me.

We spent a year touring the world and it wasn't until it was over that we truly appreciated the upside and downside of our success.

Wherever the wind blows me, I'll go! My eventual goal is to have enough experience to produce something on my own.

Travelling by myself is always more of an adventure: I meet more people. I experience the place to the fullest. I'm on my own schedule.

I realized everything my mom had done for me: Anything we didn't have, she made sure we had.

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

Upon graduation, go out into the world and try to find yourself. What do I mean by that? Read Socrates, no. Get a job? Not yet. Go out and do some crazy stuff. Don't hurt anybody including yourself, but take some risks. Travel a little bit. Make big mistakes that you have to apologize for. Do stuff that will make you relatable to the world. And whatever jobs you settle into, you will be better at it, for it.

She knows where she's going, and what she has to do. She could, after all, find her way to Route 95 South blindfolded. She could do it in the dark, in fair weather or foul; she can do it even when it seems she will run out of gas. It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wondrous worlds I've known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.