Joey Chestnut Quotes

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

Competitive eating is something I can control. I know I can control, and if I push hard, I can win.

I vill eat nine Snikuhs bahs visout bahfing

One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.

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

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.

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.

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.

You mean other than the wings? I once ate nine snicker bars in a row without barfing. It was a record.

There's no way that I could have known about a 72-oz. steak challenge in Amarillo unless thousands upon thousands of locals and travellers alike had attempted it. I guess if 'Man V Food' is me paying homage to these legends, then I suppose 'Man V Food Nation' is the legacy.

I love a woman who can out-eat me.

Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

I'm a professional food eater.

Once I get a rhythm going, I can jump those hot dogs down.

I can eat fifty eggs.

But my point is that competitive eating is a real sport, and I considered taking it up. But when I thought about what this would mean sitting around for hours, stuffing my face with unhealthy food I realized it was basically the same thing as journalism.

I think many people think competitive eating is a really disgusting sport, so people think they look bad normally. But I care about what I'm wearing. I don't want to be someone who is doing something that is considered gross and then also look like a slob.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

It was only when they'd rounded the corner toward the Penguin that we finally sat up, Laughing semi-hysterically. "Oh my God, did you see her face?" Becca asked between guffaws. "'There's something in my hair!'" "That was fantastic, Crazytop," Jason said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. "Best master plan yet.

A joke is necessary at this time.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

If I'm making myself laugh, I figure most of my readers will be amused as well.

I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody.

I think I found it difficult though to keep a straight face when we were actually working and I wasn't supposed to be laughing.

Everybody needs some good sketch comedy.