Eddie Hall Quotes

I'm a born athlete. Weight-lifting is in my blood. I used to do the powerlifting thing. I gained a little weight, but I still got it; I'm mad built.

My main goal is to become the most successful weightlifter in history.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

I'm used to big boys. I train with big boys all the time.

There is a physicality where I had to become a bit bigger to face bigger players.

I've always wanted to be the strongest in my school, in my class, everywhere. I don't care if I'm in year seven, I wanted to be the strongest in the school.

I used to be known as one of the strongest guys on the planet.

Even though the weight I'm lifting isn't what it was when I was playing, it's not like I'm not lifting weights that are heavier than the common person would lift. I think a lot of people look at that and say, 'Whoa!'

I remember watching World's Strongest Man as a kid, and I was just obsessed with it. At sort of five, six years old. Just watching these huge guys lift planes, pulls trains, lift stones - I was just mesmerised by it.

I'm a pretty big guy so heavyweight for me it comes very naturally.

In 1959 I had broken the bench press record by lifting 565 pounds, and I could lift 715 pounds from a squat.

I always wanted to be the strongest man on the field. Most of the time, they said I was lifting too much but I didn't believe in that at all.

My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and mother. It's embarrassing, because she's really strong.

I like to be strong.

I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.

I work extremely hard in the weight room, and also on the court to get better and make sure I keep my body in shape.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

I was a personal trainer for about a decade. I competed in powerlifting, and I did a bodybuilding competition. I was heavily entrenched in the personal training world.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

Let's just say I'm a physical guy.

I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.

I used to be a very, very heavy weight lifter. I weighed about 210, 215. And I used to put a lot of weight on my back. I squatted over 500 pounds.