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Gerrit Badenhorst:

• "I prove again that I'm the strongest deadlifter in the world."
• "If it comes to power, or to grip, or to pick up heavy stuff, I will be there."
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Rick "Grizzly" Brown:

• "I couldn't put it no better."
• "Geoff Capes is the Muhammad Ali of strong man."
• "I think Geoff Capes is one of the greatest strong men that ever lived."
• "It's gonna be a different story."
• "This year was a learning experience, next year is a winning experience."
• "I tried to diet for this, but you all know my nickname is Grizzly - it's not Richard Simmons, it's not Jack Lelane. I'm not a dieter, I'm an eater and a strongman."
• (Attempting to sing "Shot in the Heart" with Dusko Markovic)

Geoff Capes:

• "Without pain there is no gain, without pain there is no glory."
• "If my best isn't good enough, then I'd like to see somebody else try in my place."
• "If you only win one battle, you might not win the next one."

Harold "Iron Bear" Collins:

• "I'm excited. My adrenaline is just now starting."

Gregg Ernst:

• "You can't get too fired up or you throw up."
• "Worse than chasing cattle."

Manfred Hoeberl:

• "I think we shouldn't look for the faults for the others, but try to do our best and not try to wish the others bad luck."
• "The only problem is the lactic acid build up in my huge muscles."

Svend Karlsen

• "Viking power!"

Bill Kazmaier

• "It's the ability to concentrate and draw in powers that are all around us."
• "Yeah, I actually think I'm the strongest man that ever lived."
• "That's it. Game over."
• "I am the strongest man that ever lived. I may not be able to run as fast as a world record 440 man with a weight on my back, but I sure am plain and simple strong."
• "Strongest man in the world - Bill Kazmaier. It doesn't change until the day I die. Nor does it with Sigmarsson, or Jamie Reeves, or Bruce Wilhelm, or Don Reinhoudt. The list goes on."

Riku Kiri

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Magnus Ver Magnusson:

• "Believe me, it's not easy."
• "After a while, you know, you start getting hungry again."
• "I'm hoping for the best now. I'm getting the hunger back."
• "I think this would be the sweetest victory of them all."
• "And I kicked his ass so badly, you know he's still feeling it."
• "I've won it four times, I've won it three times in a row the hard way. Against all odds, and everything."
• "Yeah, tell me about it. And I'm not getting any younger every year."

Dusko Markovic:

• "Well, I'll tell you, it was so bad if you looked at the definition of the word bad in the dictionary, my picture would probably be there. It was pretty bad."

Heinz Ollesch:

• "I have to win. That's the only thing there is in my mind."

Joe Onosai:

• "You know, Magnus is an awesome athlete and he's an awesome person and I think he's got his work cut out for him this year."
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Jamie Reeves:

• "But this is just one battle. Now I've got to win the war."
• "Hjalti Arnason, the Icelander, says 'If you lift the big log, you will never have to work again in the coal mine.' So, he says, when you lift it, you shout, 'Never, never, never again!' So, when I looked, I found Hjalti and shouted, 'Never again!' But... I'll probably go back there in two weeks now.
• "It's nothing. The more pain I get, the more I like it."
• "When you've got 23 stones coming down on your kneecaps... you know, I want to go away from here and train next year. I want to be able to walk for the rest of my life. I just don't want to smash my knees up."
• "All the hard work's paid off."

Don Reinhoudt:

• "I think that pound for pound we're stronger people."

Magnus Samuelsson:

• "In this sport you have to always have a little bit of luck. If you get events that fit you, then you can score high, and opposite can always happen."

Jon Pall Sigmarsson:

• "I'm a viking!"
• "I'm a viking!" (clip 2)
• "I am not an eskimo, I am a viking!"
• "Because I'm a viking warrior I will always be back."
• "It is better to have a bad start and a good end than a good start and bad end."
• "I would not be here if I thought I was going to lose."
• "This is a viking country... and I'm a viking."
• "I am the strongest! I am the viking!"
• "Kazmaier is angry because I teach him a lesson last year and he is calling me a paper champion, but I will make him eat his paper now."
• "It's a very tough event, as you can see. It's just like racing to hell and back."
• "This is not the end of the war. I just lost one battle now... but there is more to come."
• "I think you will see me switch on the crazy switch later on in the competition."
• "This time, killing the stones instead of chopping the heads off the enemies."
• "I am the king of the stones. King of the rocks."
• "I have a very big problem over there - 170 kilos of problem - Geoff Capes."

Gary Taylor:

• "Yeah, just absorbing the atmosphere at the moment. I think the place is ready, I'm ready. I can't do anything but just go now and hope to do the best."
• "I don't have a great deal of bodyweight, so my plan of attack was fast in, drop, and just keep pushing. And it worked."
• "So, I'm over the bloody moon, believe it."
• "Yes. World's Strongest Man, hopefully, in the next hour. We'll see."

Berend Veneberg:

• "I mean, you look around and it's... it's incredible."

O.D. Wilson:

• "I don't know what them Icelanders be eatin', but I need to go over there and try some of that, you know what I'm saying?"
• "There is nobody stronger than me. Nobody... nobody. I'm the strongest man on this planet."
• "Never overlook me. Never. Because I'm always a threat. That's why they call me the Nightmare."
• "I hate for people to overlook me like I'm not there. It makes me mad. And now I'm mad."
• "I will win. O.D. will win."

Ab Wolders:

• "I don't know if people thought I'm finished, but if they thought it, then I will show them otherwise."
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