Joey Chestnut Quotes

I think if you come first with a new world record, that is the best.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25.

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

Once you win something, yeah, you enjoy it. But then it's on to the next game.

I was only 24 years old when I won my first Olympia. To be that young and the world champion was a lot of pressure. When I won the 8th one, I had the record. I was on top: that was the absolute best that I ever looked onstage, the best training and prep that I had done, and I had no regrets. I knew it was time to walk away.

I don't look at it like I've had a lot of success. I'm always hungry to do more, break records, and things of that sort.

Of course, I won't lie - I like to break records.

When I won my first trophy, it was just a feeling of 'we want more.'

When I leave the game, I want to go out on top.

Any time, as an athlete, you taste victory, you taste the top of the mountain, you want to get there again.

I want to learn how to play an instrument. I want to break a world record. I'm just a very determined, motivated type of person.

I want that fifth championship. If that does not present itself, then I'm closer to retirement.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.

I want to be a part of great things.

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.

I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

I do want to go out on top, as a winner.

People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.

The greatest thing is to win your first Super Bowl.