Food Quotes by Joey Chestnut

I love Italian food, such as pasta or lasagna.

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I usually stay away from sweets.

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After a contest, I try to eat fairly healthy.

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I can't always go out to a restaurant and have a normal dinner.

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I think food brings people together, and it makes people happy.

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The way I see it, I love to eat more than anybody.

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

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I love to eat! I don't think I have ever gotten sick of eating a food, unless it is bad food.

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It's pretty rare for them to not be in our fridge, I have usually a good supply of all-beef hot dogs.

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I love to eat internationally and do eating contests everywhere. Traveling around, meeting people, and doing different things.

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There's nothing pretty about competitive eating. It might be uncouth, but it is fun, and it is lighthearted.

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I don't really get hungry that much. Sometimes I get cravings for certain foods. But I can go all day without eating.

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

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If I'm going to get up on stage to eat hot dogs, I'm not going to do it to get third or…

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When I'm in training, I eat no solid food except hot dogs for six weeks.

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Everything at a baseball game is pretty much health food if you subscribe to the theory that you're eating what makes you…

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It was hard for me to take competitive eating serious at first. When I made people happy, I became addicted to that.…

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I have to learn to ignore my feelings. Not just the feeling of hunger and the feeling of full, but the feeling…

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Maybe in America there's more of an emphasis on food than there should be. But when I look out at the audience…

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Going into a contest, I do not eat solid food and take in minimal calories for days, so I am hungry.

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

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

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

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I love king crab a lot. I love good Mexican food, good tacos, and chile rellenos.

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

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It's pretty rare for me to be someplace that serves hot dogs and not eat one.

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There are competitive people who love to push their body but don't love to eat like I do.

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I've learned how to gnarl the food down. It's not pretty.

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I think my body was built to eat 68 hot dogs. It's natural.

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

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There's a couple of foods that if you see me eat them in a contest, you can tell I like them. Grilled…

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There are times when I'm not eating buns if I'm on a low carb diet. I'll have hot dogs and romaine lettuce,…

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They don't sell the Nathan's hot dogs hardly anywhere in the West Coast. So I have to special order them, and I…

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Make sure I'm chewing, swallowing, and breathing, my whole body is working together. I can just find a rhythm and keep going…

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I love food, and not surprisingly, I often suffer from stomach upsets when I overeat in general, let alone when I'm competing.

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The hardest is foods I am not familiar with. Gyros, I lost that one; I don't like tzatziki sauce very much. I…

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I can't tell you all my secrets to how I can eat so many. Someone out there might copy it. But I…

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