Michael Edwards (born 5 December 1963), better known as Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, is a British skier who was the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping. At the time, Edwards was the British ski jumping record holder, the world number nine in amateur speed skiing (106.8 mph (171.9 km/h)) and the stunt jumping world record holder (10 cars/6 buses).
Read more about Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards: Background, 1988 Olympics, The Eddie "The Eagle" Rule, Return To Calgary, Torchbearer, Creative Efforts, Commercial Success, Planned Biopic
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“Eddie Felson: Church of the Good Hustler.
Charlie: Looks more like a morgue to me. Those tables are the slabs they lay the stiffs on.
Eddie Felson: I’ll be alive when I get out, Charlie.”
—Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Eddie Felson (Paul Newman)
“Being wakeful for her sake,
Remembering what she had,
What eagle look still shows,
While up from my heart’s root
So great a sweetness flows
I shake from head to foot.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There’s so few people in this town with a conscience.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)