Takeru Kobayashi Quotes

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

I just want to compete and do what I love.

The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.

I know that I have a special stomach.

I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.

If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.

[H]uman beings ... make a limit in their mind of what their potential is. They decide, "I've been told this," or "this is what society tells me," or they've been made to believe something. If every human being actually threw away those thoughts ... the potential of human beings is great, it's huge, compared to what they actually think of themselves.

I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.