Top 80 Guy Fieri Quotes

There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I’ve always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car… this is going to be unbelievable.

The last thing I’m gonna do is, ‘This is dynamite!’ That’s not my gig, man. I love the mom-and-pop joints. I love giving them recognition, but I’m not gonna blow smoke. We walked out of locations; we’ve changed locations.

There are two different things: there’s grilling, and there’s barbecue. Grilling is when people say, ‘We’re going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.’ Barbecue is going low and slow.

The No. 1 thing I hear from people when I meet them in the airport is, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re just like you are on TV.’ Well, I’m not an actor. I don’t think anyone could figure out how to be this weird.

Losing my sister to cancer was… That was the worst thing in the world, man.

Whenever you get to change somebody’s life or watch it and see it happen, it’s amazing.

I try to hike at least three times a week when I’m home in Sonoma County.

We are not blessed with junk food – my family and my kids do not eat fast foods.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

Kids love food. It’s about putting materials out there that get kids thinking about food – to get kids interacting about food. It’s about simple things, like kids thinking about pasta – getting kids to work with food.

I look at a basketball laying on the ground, and it makes me think of something. Popcorn ball. How ’bout a spicy popcorn ball? That is how my mind is always working.

Why can’t we have a concert with food? Your typical cooking demonstration, there’s just no enthusiasm. There’s no energy behind it. I said, ‘What if we take a cooking demonstration and fortify it with a lot of good music? … Drive it to the next level?’

One of my good buddies is Marcel Reece with the Raiders. He’s a big ‘Triple-D’ fan; he’s a big food fan.

I’m in a very unique position in that I got to participate in the Food Network by contest. That’s long gone, being voted on, but I don’t forget where it came from, and I don’t forget the people who worked to put me here.

The Tom Brady sandwich would be a prosciutto with a nice Buffalo mozzarella, on a crispy baguette with a little fresh basil. Brady is classy; he’s a really cool dude. He’s got a lot of flavor.

Avocados that haven’t fully ripened will lack the big flavor you want for your dip.

I really believe you’ve gotta put the power in the people. They’re the ones who are gonna make the experience.

There’s been quite a few conversations between me and my wife; she’d like to see my hair brown again. So who knows what will happen.

I can’t bake anything. I’m the worst. My cakes always come out flat.

I’m not a greasy food guy. I don’t eat like that.

I don’t know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that’s what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy.

Food is not just eating energy. It’s an experience.

One of the greatest birds I’ve ever had is called a ‘Turducken.’ A chicken inside of a duck inside of a turkey. That’s one that I love. I’ve done it a couple times.

My parents moved out to California in 1968 from Ohio in a VW station wagon pulling a little trailer. I was 4 months old. They were following the energy out here.

Howie Mandel is the real deal.

I think there’s a misconception that I eat everything. The one or two bites that you see me take, that’s it.

In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice.

I’m a collector, so I’ve got all kinds of sunglasses. I’d say I’ve got about a buck ten, buck twenty.

At first, people think about vegetarian food like, ‘Here’s some veggies. Here’s some pasta.’ But there’s so much more you can do in the vegetarian and vegan world.

Look, the fame rocket is only on the upward trajectory for a limited time.

If you’re cooking and not making mistakes, you’re not playing outside your safety zone. I don’t expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

It’s football all day on Sunday. I wish we had football every day; that would make me way happier. Why can’t we have that? You’ve got all these teams! Why can’t we just play a Monday game, a Tuesday game, a Wednesday game?

When you love the competition, the opportunity to achieve at simple but challenging games, some people are really into it, and I’m one of them.

I’m gonna open a small restaurant on the beach in Mexico. We’re only gonna have a few tables, and we’re only gonna cook what’s fresh that day. We’re gonna get back to the basics… Real food for real people.

I always wish for more time at home or at the restaurants or on the shows.

You can find tranquility, you can find party, you can find new friends. I’m a cruise convert.

Growing up in Northern California, I’ve only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases.

When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I soon realized there was a whole world out there. I was determined to spend my sophomore year in high school abroad. My school taught only Spanish, but I wanted to go to France, and I did.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

I’m not a celebrity chef. I’m a chef that happens to have television shows and a chef that happens to do media.

A lot of people who like sushi don’t really like raw fish or seaweed.

Preparing food is one of life’s great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That’s not cooking – that’s working!

I’m a big fan of doing ‘Triple D.’ But I don’t want to do it forever, don’t get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.

I’m a big greens fan. I’m a big vegetable fan. I’m a big whole grains fan. And I exercise a lot. That’s how I keep this petite dancer’s figure.

If you’ve really got a problem with me, and you came and told me you had a problem with me, I’d be interested to listen to you. But if you’re just some loser that sits there and hammers away on some blog form or whatever, I don’t have time for that. Why even worry about it?

I love to exercise. I’m a big hiker, and I like boxing. I mean, I love a good burger, but I keep things in moderation.

If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won’t eat as much.

I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don’t pay attention to the negative.

Outdoor cooking is not just about hot dogs and hamburgers. There are so many styles of food you can make.

I would ride my horse to school.

Nothing, not even an avocado pit, keeps guacamole green for too long once it’s made.

I love everything from Enya to Pantera.

It’s always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done.

I have a fond appreciation for the Canadian culture and the Canadian food scene in general.

With messy food, or foods with a lot of sauce, you do ‘The Hunch.’ I learned it in Philly, watching the dudes in suits eat cheesesteaks. You keep your elbows above your hands because if you don’t, the grease runs down your sleeve to your elbow.

The men and women in the Armed Forces, that’s what I always think about and what I teach my kids about. We’re getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there’s people that are not with their families.

What you see is what you get with me. There’s no show.

Anybody that pays attention to hate really is wasting their time. I don’t subscribe. I don’t buy in.

I say to folks all the time, ‘Watch what you’re eating. You don’t have to eat it all. Make conscious choices. It doesn’t mean you have to starve yourself and eat carrots all day.’ Have an awareness.

I love to cook for people. It’s my honor, honestly. It’s what I have to give.

I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can’t control it.

I’ve never been an apron fan; it’s all too cumbersome to me.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar’s worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

I was even more of a Hagar fan when he was just Hagar and not Van Hagar.

The opportunity to be a star chef, to imagine it would be here in Las Vegas, I couldn’t comprehend it.

I respect anybody that cooks. I know how hard it is.

Kids want to saute, to cut the pizza, to see how the ingredients come together. If you let them do the fun stuff, they’ll develop skills and interests that will stay with them forever.

Short of screaming-hot Thai food, everything can be suitable for kids too.