Joey Chestnut Quotes

Joey Chestnut

Profession : Celebrity

Birth : November 25, 1983

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

Joey Chestnut

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

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

Joey Chestnut

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

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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?'

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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 will tell you this: The night before the competition, I sleep only four hours. That means when I actually do eat, my stomach will want to digest the food quicker.

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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.

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

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

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Winning tastes pretty good.

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It was a hard decision to give up a normal job. I worked hard to get through school. You go from building a fire station to an eating contest.

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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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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.

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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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I have the craziest dreams when I'm digesting a massive amount. It feels so real, it's psychedelic.

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

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

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

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

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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 did kimchi in Korea, which was rough: fermented cabbage and spicy.

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