Loading Docs 2022 - Fast Eddie

I know it's going to happen. I try not to think about it too much. I've thought about it a bit more lately. You feel the changes in your body. It's going to fail.

– Eddie Meechen on his diagnosis, The NZ Herald, 22 October 2022

Keep fighting. You have to otherwise you'll slow down and stop. You give an inch, it takes a mile. I'm hanging around like a bad smell. Life throws things at you and you just keep going. The alternative is not good.

– Excerpt from an interview with Eddie Meechen, The NZ Herald, 22 October 2022

I think I realised today that this is actually gonna be his last adventure.

– Director Keely Meechen. while doing the Lake Dunstan Cycle Trail with her father Eddie

She's given her life to look after me. You don't sign up for that.

– Eddie on the love he has for wife Jo

There's a feeling you get, being free, not falling over, not anyone carrying you anywhere. Not talking to anyone because you can't be understood. For a while there you forget you have a disease.

– Eddie Meechen describes the joy of cycling the Lake Dunstan Trail

Nah. I live on the edge.

– Eddie's reply to concerns he was cycling close to the edge of the track

I think I made it because it was hard to see Dad go from being able to do whatever he wants to people carrying him everywhere. I just wanted to give him one last chance to feel free and able-bodied.

– Director Keely Meechen on why she made the film, The NZ Herald, 22 October 2022

Because I've done a lot of my grieving. I've grieved for three years...and now I've come to terms with the fact that he is gonna go, but we just...don't you cry.

– Jo Meechen answers her daughter Keely's question 'how do you stay strong?'