Joey Chestnut Quotes

Joey Chestnut

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : November 25, 1983

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.

Joey Chestnut

My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it.

Joey Chestnut

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.

Joey Chestnut

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

Joey Chestnut

There's no better feeling than beating someone who's up on a high horse.

Joey Chestnut

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

Joey Chestnut

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.

Joey Chestnut

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

Joey Chestnut

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

Joey Chestnut

I'm lucky. My parents are, like, super hippies. They were just happy I was going to school and I wasn't getting in trouble.

Joey Chestnut

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

Joey Chestnut

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

Joey Chestnut

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.

Joey Chestnut

I love Italian food, such as pasta or lasagna.

Joey Chestnut

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

Joey Chestnut

I think Peter King... he's kind of narrow-minded.

Joey Chestnut

Maybe in America there's more of an emphasis on food than there should be. But when I look out at the audience during a competition, some people are shocked, but most people are smiling.

Joey Chestnut

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, but if I'm at a baseball game, I'm always eating a hot dog.

Joey Chestnut

My weight does fluctuate, and there are extreme highs and lows in my blood sugar, so there is some worry about diabetes.

Joey Chestnut

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

Joey Chestnut