When I'm eating I try to make sure I can breathe through my nose the entire time. If I have to breathe through my mouth, there's no way I'm eating or swallowing.
I think food brings people together, and it makes people happy.
I think Peter King... he's kind of narrow-minded.
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.
I think the traveling is what drew me into 'The Amazing Race' years ago.
It wasn't like I grew up wanting to be a competitive eater at all. Not like a lot of people, like football players, famous people - they knew that that's what they wanted to do when they were young.
I was 21, and I was in college, and I'd eat real healthy during the week, and then on the weekends I would reward myself, and I'd just go to town on whatever my parents had in the fridge. And my little brother would be like, 'Hey.' And so it was actually him that begged me to do my first contest.
Every time you learn you can do something, you can go a little bit faster next time.
Going into a contest, I do not eat solid food and take in minimal calories for days, so I am hungry.
After a contest, I try to eat fairly healthy.
I love to eat! I don't think I have ever gotten sick of eating a food, unless it is bad food.
I've strained some muscles here and there, in my throat, even my jaw. Nothing that doesn't heal quickly.
It's always a battle to maintain my weight.
There are competitive people who love to push their body but don't love to eat like I do.
Make sure I'm chewing, swallowing, and breathing, my whole body is working together. I can just find a rhythm and keep going and going and going. It's my love of food.
I've signed babies' arms. I wanted to pull a 'Ricky Bobby' and sign a baby's forehead.
So now I'm 'the hot dog guy,' which isn't bad. I take it in stride. It's not like it was my goal in life. I'm having fun with it.
It was a hard decision to give up a normal job. I worked hard to get through school. You go from building a fire station to an eating contest.
If I can train for a contest for a week, it's a guaranteed victory.
When I'm in training, I eat no solid food except hot dogs for six weeks.
