No. Andre the Giant’s character wasn’t that bright. Although I guess he could’ve said something like that innocently, not sarcasticly as I meant it.
The author was David Gemmel, and that was The King Beyong the Gate, the sequel to Legend.
“See?” Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. “Inigo is beaten.”
Inconceivable!” exploded the Sicilian.
Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. “I’m so stupid,” Fezzik nodded.
“Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black’s clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.”