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Winning tastes pretty good.
I usually stay away from sweets.
Kobayashi won't talk to me. He hates me.
It's always a battle to maintain my weight.
After a contest, I try to eat fairly healthy.
I love Italian food, such as pasta or lasagna.
I think Peter King... he's kind of narrow-minded.
I'm getting older, and I'm smarter about how I eat.
I've learned how to gnarl the food down. It's not pretty.
Once I get a rhythm going, I can jump those hot dogs down.
I think my body was built to eat 68 hot dogs. It's natural.
I can't always go out to a restaurant and have a normal dinner.
I have to eat healthy, and I recover. I run, and I lift weights.
If I can train for a contest for a week, it's a guaranteed victory.
I've slowly made my body adapt and understand what's going to happen.
There's no better feeling than beating someone who's up on a high horse.
I think the traveling is what drew me into 'The Amazing Race' years ago.
When I'm in training, I eat no solid food except hot dogs for six weeks.
It's pretty rare for me to be someplace that serves hot dogs and not eat one.
I lose now and then. I get lazy. And sometimes I work just hard enough to win.
I was able to get a civil engineering degree and travel around the world and eat.
I love king crab a lot. I love good Mexican food, good tacos, and chile rellenos.
I remember as a kid watching that movie - 'Cool Hand Luke' - with my grandfather.
I know that when I'm fitter, I breathe better. If I breathe better, I can eat more.
Every time you learn you can do something, you can go a little bit faster next time.
I've signed babies' arms. I wanted to pull a 'Ricky Bobby' and sign a baby's forehead.
I'd like to go out on top, preferably breaking a new world record on the Fourth of July.
Seafood is one of the easiest things to digest - a bratwurst is really hard on the body.
I'm more than just a competitive eater. I'm a smart guy. I could be an awesome park ranger.
You need to stay calm the day of the contest. Not let the weather bother me and just relax.
I like going to the doctor, being vigilant, being told that I'm healthy so I can push myself.
If I'm going to get up on stage to eat hot dogs, I'm not going to do it to get third or fourth.
That's one reason I like hot dogs. Nice and clean. And you can count them as they're going down.
The most important thing in any contest is finding your rhythm and making your body work for you.
I have the craziest dreams when I'm digesting a massive amount. It feels so real, it's psychedelic.
Competitive eating is something I can control. I know I can control, and if I push hard, I can win.
I don't want to train for every contest the way I do for the Fourth of July. It would be impossible.
Going into a contest, I do not eat solid food and take in minimal calories for days, so I am hungry.
It's pretty rare for them to not be in our fridge, I have usually a good supply of all-beef hot dogs.
I didn't just eat hot dogs. I studied how the food went into your system and how it would be digested.
The weather in New York, it fluctuates so much. Some days it's humid, some days you have a thunderstorm.
I've strained some muscles here and there, in my throat, even my jaw. Nothing that doesn't heal quickly.
Pretty much all I'm doing during an eating contest is being uncomfortable and not forgetting to breathe.
There's nothing pretty about competitive eating. It might be uncouth, but it is fun, and it is lighthearted.
Honoring our nation's heroes and their caregivers is a cause very important to me - especially on Independence Day.
I don't really get hungry that much. Sometimes I get cravings for certain foods. But I can go all day without eating.
I have the greatest job in the world, and my life revolves around my love for food - particularly devouring hot dogs.
My weight does fluctuate, and there are extreme highs and lows in my blood sugar, so there is some worry about diabetes.
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.
Kobayashi was the man. The other competitive eaters, they thought of him as unbeatable... He wasn't an eater. He was a god.