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🗓️ 26 September 2019
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Robert Oberst is the professional strongman known as “The American Monster”.
He has competed in Strongman all around the world since 2012, including America’s Strongest Man, the Arnold Classic and five times in the World’s Strongest Man, twice placing as a finalist.
Today Robert stars on the History Channel television show The Strongest Man In History, alongside Brian Shaw, Nick Best and Eddie Hall, while travelling the world promoting strongman with his catchphrase “Strong and Pretty”.
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0:00.0 | Strength, it's a language that we all speak. It's almost men overcoming a human form. |
0:08.0 | I just knew if I wanted it I could make it happen. It's hard to have that kind of |
0:15.9 | character unless you earn that kind of character. I ended up being homeless and |
0:21.1 | on my own at 16. |
0:22.8 | And I just became angry. |
0:25.0 | I hated the world. |
0:25.8 | I wanted it to burn. |
0:27.8 | That was hard. |
0:29.9 | But I wouldn't trade any of that stuff for where I am now. |
0:33.9 | Because that got you here. |
0:34.9 | Yeah. |
0:36.7 | To be the world's strongest man, |
0:37.8 | you have to be willing to let it all go. |
0:40.7 | It has to be the one and only thing you're focused on. |
0:44.0 | I'm one of the top 10 strongest men on the planet, which means I'm one of the strongest men to ever live. |
0:48.0 | And if that's all I ever am, I'm very proud of that. |
0:51.0 | I think those hard times, if you can get through them |
0:54.8 | and if you can stand up and be strong afterwards, |
0:58.3 | that definitely is one of the sure ways of being |
1:02.0 | an actual well-rounded individual. |
1:05.0 | Whatever your best self is, I want to inspire you to being that. |
1:10.0 | You do anything in this world, and that's the luxury we have as people now is that we actually know that's true. |
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