Alain Ducasse Quotes

I can fish from a stick and a string.

I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

Hobbies-wise, I love to carp fish. I like to be on the bank when I have some downtime.

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks.

My friend Ed Begley goes fishing. It's a little smelly to me, I don't like it so much. I like to eat fish, but I don't like to catch them.

I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

I do fish, and as a matter of fact, I used to do a lot of deep sea fishing, but as far as going into the water, I don't go out deep into the water.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.

But I love to fish - that's a hobby of mine.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

Let us cultivate our garden.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

I used to laugh at my friends who garden, but I now garden. You don't even feel like you're exercising. You're having fun, and you're being healthy at the same time.

I think that's my strength, that I am an amateur gardener who loves gardening. I've read about it, I've written about it, I've done it all my life but at heart, I'm just a passionate amateur gardener.

What's not to aspire to about how to grow your own fruit and vegetables and plants, and then being creative?

Golf and fishing. I usually do both at least once a week. The biggest fish I've ever caught was a 36 lb. carp.

I've fished since I was a teenager. It's one of the most fantastic activities, and there's so much to it. I just love every facet of it. I've never had a bad day fishing.

My most precious possession is a 13.5-feet-long fishing rod, made by an American firm called Loomis.

I don't fish but had always wanted to after doing it as a kid.

When I was four years old, I found fishing and it has been my base ever since.

I used to play football, and then my wife bought me a fishing rod.

My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.