Top 45 Joey Chestnut Quotes

I usually stay away from sweets.

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

It’s addicting, beating the heck out of people and eating hot dogs and making people smile. I do feel like garbage afterwards, but so what? Most people feel like garbage after a long day of work.

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

I remember as a kid watching that movie – ‘Cool Hand Luke’ – with my grandfather.

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

There’s nothing worse than getting third.

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

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

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

I was 21, and I was in college, and I’d eat real healthy during the week, and then on the weekends I would reward myself, and I’d just go to town on whatever my parents had in the fridge. And my little brother would be like, ‘Hey.’ And so it was actually him that begged me to do my first contest.

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

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

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

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

They don’t sell the Nathan’s hot dogs hardly anywhere in the West Coast. So I have to special order them, and I just end up getting Nathan’s to ship them to me.

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

You need to stay calm the day of the contest. Not let the weather bother me and just relax.

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

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

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

The crowd loves a record, and if they’re gonna be standing out there in crazy, blistering heat on the 4th of July, I mean, if they’re doing it, I may as well try and give them a record.

I like going to the doctor, being vigilant, being told that I’m healthy so I can push myself.

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.

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

Mom only gets angry when I don’t visit her enough. She raised six kids to be 100 percent independent and work for everything we achieve. I mean, we don’t expect anything for free.

It wasn’t like I grew up wanting to be a competitive eater at all. Not like a lot of people, like football players, famous people – they knew that that’s what they wanted to do when they were young.

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

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

It’s always a battle to maintain my weight.

Winning tastes pretty good.

I go to the doctor every four months to get my blood work done to make sure everything is working right.

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

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

I’ve signed babies’ arms. I wanted to pull a ‘Ricky Bobby’ and sign a baby’s forehead.

If I can train for a contest for a week, it’s a guaranteed victory.

I love Italian food, such as pasta or lasagna.

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?’

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

I know I hold the contest record for downing the most hot dogs, and the record for most Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Contest championships, but it was really cool to be a part of a Guinness World Records official attempt.

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

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

I’m really normal except for the competitive eating.

The weather in New York, it fluctuates so much. Some days it’s humid, some days you have a thunderstorm.

It was hard for me to take competitive eating serious at first. When I made people happy, I became addicted to that. It’s been a fun, fun ride.