Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Gregg Wallace - Page 2

It's not up to us how people eat.

I once told a white South African woman that her food was as weak as the Rand, and she complained of racism. Now I watch what I say.

I'm a huge fan of curries, chillies and stews and it is still possible to lose weight and eat hearty meals.

Food is the only snobbery allowed. Imagine pulling up in your expensive car alongside somebody at the lights with a cheap car and saying, 'Is that all you've got?' But people do it with food.

I once bought a 45 ice cream. I had to do it. They had a 100-year-old vinegar drizzled across the top. And that was worth it.

The game of love, in my opinion, is a lottery.

History is just fascinating. I love it.

A lot of people have what they call 'sofa time,' but it just doesn't exist in my world.

Spending time in Soweto, and looking at the issues, and experiencing the poverty first-hand, had an enormous impact. I was brought up in a council house in South East London - I didn't have a privileged or wealthy upbringing - but looking at the scale of the problems there just left me dumbfounded.

A safari is just a magical thing, the winelands in South Africa are beautiful.

I'm a real security addict and I've always channelled far too much of my life into accumulating money.

I've always been a worrier.

I've always made friends with people who have either money or influence and it's something that I've struggled to let go of because I've been so needy in the past.

We don't spend loads of money. I want to make sure that when I'm gone, my wife is looked after and financially safe.

If people ate local and seasonal food they'd eat far better and cheaper foods and it would help farming in this country. There are far too many imported vegetables.

It's all well and good telling people to buy more expensive food but the idea of cheap, mass-produced food and nobody starving is pretty good.

I like people and I like talking to them.

Don't cut out things you like - it will just make you miserable.

There are two things that happen when there is a recession. One, more people watch telly and two, people buy more raw foodstuffs, instead of processed foods.

I really want to help people because it seems to be there's this mental block and people think in order to lose weight you have to give up things in your life that are good - and that just isn't true. They feel like they've got to turn themselves into a monk.

On 'MasterChef' the critique always is about the food.

I hate food evangelists.

What I firmly believe in is making positive steps in the right direction gradually and that way you move yourself into a healthy lifestyle gradually and that means you never do anything that's uncomfortable.

I learned that South Africa is the most diverse country I have ever seen. The diversity is just striking. The food, the people, the culture, the look and the feel, for that all to be one country.

Well, I don't know about my mum; I think she is almost Buddhist in her approach to life in that she's not going to work very hard at any particular thing and she's not going to let any particular thing trouble her. I'm very different. I aspire to things and I worry about things.

I think it's a class thing. There are people that would honestly think Pret a Manger is healthier than Greggs. Why?

I think people should eat more healthily and probiotics are good for you and easy to make.

When I was at my biggest I was having a daily fry up, fish and chips once per week, takeaway a couple more times and drinking beer nearly every day.

I don't do this watching telly thing. I realise I am strange.

My loves in life are food, history and rugby. I'd love to be a history professor or a rugby player but I prefer rugby and my career would end by the time I was 30, leaving me enough time to go and study history.

When you fall in love with a younger woman, you've got to realise that the chances are they are going to want a family.

Happy men are not the ones in the pub, laughing. Happy men are at home with their wives and family. There is no one happy in the pub.

I hate barbecues in the U.K., they're always put together by people who don't cook.

I think that Hardeep Singh Kohli is the winner of 'MasterChef' that never was.

I made a conscious decision to cut down on fried and high sugar foods, as well as booze - which helped me lose weight.

You don't have to be uncomfortable or hungry to lose weight. You just have to learn what foods you can eat.

When I lived in Whitstable, Kent, I used a Harvester all the time in Herne Bay and people used to say, 'I didn't expect to see you in here.' Why wouldn't I be in here?

I would make a tough law that would force all supermarkets to source at least 15 per cent of their fresh produce from a very small radius of the store.

We don't like to say it, but TV is a hugely image-conscious industry. I know it might sometimes look like I don't do anything, but I work very hard, and part of that is looking as well as you can. It's an advert about who you are, what sort of person you are.

I don't believe in starving yourself three times a week, I don't believe in not having carbs.