Commentator, reveling:
“You know what we’re seeing, is just a golden age of competitive eating.”
Contrasting American Joey Chestnut and Japanese Takeru Kobayashi:
“A much more physical eater, [Chestnut]’s a workaday guy. He’s a blue-collar eater, he just pounds that food down. It’s more like a ballet when you see Kobayashi.”
On the rivalry between Kobayashi and Chestnut:
“This is Lakers – Celtics!”
Joey Chestnut, on why he didn’t quite reach his goal of 70 HDBs (hot dogs and buns):
“The buns were a little bit slow today.”
Question posed to Joey Chestnut:
“At what point did you say, ‘I think I’ve got a world record in my belly’?”
On Joey Chestnut retaining the championship for America:
“I don’t moisturize and I don’t watch Gossip Girl. But I’m very emotional right now, as an American.”