A biography for Hafthor Bjornssonhasn’t been written yet.
“A lot of big guys can't bend down, have knee pain, are slow. I'm fast. I'm flexible, especially for my size.”
“People often forget that even though training is very important, your diet also has to be very good. You have to get plenty of rest. That's when your body reacts to the training.”
“People try to be rude against me, my family, my girlfriend, anything. People like to be mean to people through social media.”
“I need to force feed myself. I'm constantly fighting to stay the weight I am.”
“Everything is expensive in Iceland, especially food, and especially healthy food.”
“I was a center. I was quite athletic, I could shoot okay and I trained a lot. I played with the national team in Iceland.”
“It's always OK to find help. Don't be ashamed if you need help. I have help from so many people. My wife helps me with my diet all the time. I have a nutritionist.”
“If there's anything that offends me, especially if it's towards my family, I just block them. I don't accept that. I don't get upset because I like to focus on the positive.”
“Being the strongest man in the world is exciting for me.”
“I can still be 200 kilograms but still have enough endurance for strongman - I feel like if I get much heavier than that it's going to affect my endurance a lot.”
“I never back down from a challenge and when I learned that a single drop of Krazy Glue was strong enough to hold up to 1,000 pounds, I knew I had to put the product's strength to the test for myself.”
“We have very good fish in Iceland.”
“I've always enjoyed lifting heavy; I saw extremely good results. I just got hooked, seeing how strong I got and how much my body changed.”
“I had a great time on 'Game of Thrones.'”
“Girls ask me to pick them up all of the time, and I have to admit, sometimes it's hard to put them down again.”
“Don't tie yourself down to one workout, as your muscles quickly adapt to a certain style of training, so you'll see less results over time. The same can be said about cardio and your diet.”
“I don't get people asking me to fight face-to-face but there's a lot of brave folk on the Internet.”
“No one has ever threatened me in real life but on Facebook and Twitter it's all the time. You just get Internet warriors.”
“It's very, very extreme how much food I need to put in to my body. It's a lot of work. More work than people realise.”
“I train mostly for my static power: dead lifts.”