Guy Fieri

“I did a big thing with Ritz Crackers - great cracker. Am I now the Ritz chef? No! Do I think the cracker has a lot of diversity and appeal? Yeah! Does it mean that's my foundation of cooking? No!”

“I say to folks all the time, 'Watch what you're eating. You don't have to eat it all. Make conscious choices. It doesn't mean you have to starve yourself and eat carrots all day.' Have an awareness.”

“I love 'Iron Chef' and I love 'Chopped.' I watch both of them. I think it is crazy what those chefs go through.”

“I'm not a religious person by any means.”

“My restaurant, Tex Wasabi's, we have a whole 'Minute to Win It' challenge going on on Sundays already. The show hasn't even aired and they're already doing challenges where people are coming and participating. I think it's going to take over.”

“Kids love food. It's about putting materials out there that get kids thinking about food - to get kids interacting about food. It's about simple things, like kids thinking about pasta - getting kids to work with food.”

“You can find tranquility, you can find party, you can find new friends. I'm a cruise convert.”

“I'm a big hiker, and I like boxing. I mean, I love a good burger, but I keep things in moderation.”

“My parents moved out to California in 1968 from Ohio in a VW station wagon pulling a little trailer. I was 4 months old. They were following the energy out here.”

“If you looked in my fridge, you'd see maybe 12 different mustards.”

“People are very phobic about fish. And if they do cook fish, they fry it, which kills all the flavor.”

“When you love the competition, the opportunity to achieve at simple but challenging games, some people are really into it, and I'm one of them.”

“Some people are just born to cook and talk.”

“If I probably didn't have tattoos, or if I probably didn't bleach my hair, or if I probably didn't wear blue jeans and a T-shirt to fancy things, if I didn't do things that make me look like someone who's whacked out of their mind, it'd probably be different. But then again, that's how I wanna dress.”

“People need to take a little bit more risk.”

“The men and women in the Armed Forces, that's what I always think about and what I teach my kids about. We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families.”

“I specifically left the corporate world so I could wear T-shirts, blue jeans, and honestly, I always wanted to be my own boss.”

“Triple D is all about three things: Food, story and character.”

“There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I've always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car... this is going to be unbelievable.”

“I always wish for more time at home or at the restaurants or on the shows.”