Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Joey Chestnut - Page 2

There's a couple of foods that if you see me eat them in a contest, you can tell I like them. Grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken wings, ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza. I mean, those, they go down like I was made to eat them.

It doesn't get old. Just like running doesn't get old to people who like to run. I just love to eat.

Traveling around the world to eat, it's a weird life, but I love it.

Seafood is one of the easiest things to digest - a bratwurst is really hard on the body.

Once I get a rhythm going, I can jump those hot dogs down.

I have to eat healthy, and I recover. I run, and I lift weights.

I don't mind losing because it really shows me what the other eaters are capable of.

Pretty much all I'm doing during an eating contest is being uncomfortable and not forgetting to breathe.

Military caregivers play an essential role in the recovery process of our veterans and are more than deserving of our support.

I think that happens to anybody, when they train for things over and over again, and then they just realize, 'What do I train for now?'

There's no better feeling than knowing I'm going to break the guy next to me. His body will shut down, and I will keep eating. Then I will look out and see a crowd of happy people.

I don't want to train for every contest the way I do for the Fourth of July. It would be impossible.

When I started doing contests, I didn't look at it as a sport, but when I realized I was looking at it that way, I had to acknowledge it as a sport.

I'm more than just a competitive eater. I'm a smart guy. I could be an awesome park ranger.

If there's something I like, I'm going to eat a little more of it than most people.

I have the greatest job in the world, and my life revolves around my love for food - particularly devouring hot dogs.

Honoring our nation's heroes and their caregivers is a cause very important to me - especially on Independence Day.

That's one reason I like hot dogs. Nice and clean. And you can count them as they're going down.

There have always been a lot of critics of competitive eating. You can be a critic of anything. It's easy to be a critic. You can say negative things about golf, the amount of water wasted on golf courses. Or NASCAR. There are wastes in everything.

I've slowly made my body adapt and understand what's going to happen.

I know that when I'm fitter, I breathe better. If I breathe better, I can eat more.

Winning tastes pretty good.

I do know when my body is ready or when it's going to perform best for me.

I travel pretty much every weekend of the summer. And then during the winter, I still do appearances and a couple contests here and there.

I'm getting older, and I'm smarter about how I eat.

I remember as a kid watching that movie - 'Cool Hand Luke' - with my grandfather.

The hardest is foods I am not familiar with. Gyros, I lost that one; I don't like tzatziki sauce very much. I did kimchi in Korea, which was rough: fermented cabbage and spicy.

I'd never eaten lobster before. I was 21. I didn't know what the heck I was doing. I was scooping guts. But I tied for third. And the two men who beat me didn't look good. One was Bob Shoudt. He seemed in pain. And I felt fine! I was 'Oh, my God, they look like they're dying. And I can eat so much more!' I knew I was made for it after that contest.

The most important thing in any contest is finding your rhythm and making your body work for you.

Kobayashi won't talk to me. He hates me.

I didn't just eat hot dogs. I studied how the food went into your system and how it would be digested.

Kobayashi was the man. The other competitive eaters, they thought of him as unbeatable... He wasn't an eater. He was a god.

There's nothing worse than getting third.

I'm getting paid to eat. It's not too bad of a life.

I have to learn to ignore my feelings. Not just the feeling of hunger and the feeling of full, but the feeling of embarrassment, too. I have to remember that this is only weird if I make it weird.

I think I get out of bed because I love to eat.

Competitive eating is something I can control. I know I can control, and if I push hard, I can win.

Honestly, I'm so competitive that sometimes I don't understand what other people are going through.