Quotes from Brian Shaw

When I'm training for a car deadlift, sometimes I'll stand on some mats to make the bar lower.

Wearing jeans or any kind of long pants, it just sucks for me, to be honest.

I don't care how much weight's on there. If you're doing 40 reps, that's cardio!

I always loved lifting and training and competing.

My main purpose in launching StrongmanAcademy.com is so competitors know how to win and beginners know what to do.

I think the first contest I did, I was somewhere just over 300 pounds. With my frame, I needed to add more weight and put more muscle on to get better leverage and be more successful. Just to get stronger, really. I had to work really hard.

I've had to have some of my dress clothes tailored.

The weight room has always been a place for me where I could go to be relaxed. It's my sanctuary of sorts.

I started lifting heavy weights and became addicted to it and before I knew it I won the title of the world's strongest man which is very cool.

Think of how much time it takes to prepare and eat a single meal. Then multiply that by seven. I wish I had my own chef!

I've always been fascinated by different feats of strength throughout history.

I can very much relate to being on the road and filming and trying to train. It's a whole different ball game.

My love for weight training and competing just seemed like a perfect fit for strongman. So I decided to give it a try, for fun, really. It's definitely not for everybody, but if you love working out and being competitive and pushing yourself to the limit, it's great. It's fun, for sure.

I'm a fan of functional strength.

I know in my training, especially when I'm building up to a big 'max,' I can take as long as I want to be ready for that lift and mentally prepare for it. In the contest, some of that goes out the window. When your name is called and the bar is loaded, you've got to go whether you're ready or not.

Eating is the hard part. It's constant - you don't ever stop from the time you wake up you eat until you go to bed. Then I wake up in the morning and the first thing I do is eat and do it all day again.

First thing in the morning, it's very important to eat quickly. So I'm reaching for eggs.

My very first competition was at the end of 2005. Honestly, I just looked it up online and tried to find something local, because I had no idea how to do it or where to start. I did Denver's Strongest Man here in Colorado, and I won.

People think the training is the hard part, it's not really. That's fun, I can get loose and do what I want to do. I only get to train for a few hours, maybe during the day.

I remember seeing a story on Olympic swimmer, Ryan Lochte doing strongman workouts. That was awesome.

I want to show people how to do this at an exceptional level whether they are a competitor, a CrossFit strongman or someone who just wants to do strongman workouts at home.

If you're the strongest man on the planet, you ought to be able to pick up a stone or flip a tire.

In all honesty, I just love car deadlifts.

When you are in a competition, and there's however many men competing alongside you, you do not get to determine when you go to lift... you don't know how many guys will make it to the next round. You don't know how long they're going to take.