I look at a basketball laying on the ground, and it makes me think of something. Popcorn ball. How 'bout a spicy popcorn ball? That is how my mind is always working.
It's a life lesson they need to have, a skill everybody needs - to cook.
I take everything very seriously, but I also take it lighthearted to recognize that you can't control it.
Look, the fame rocket is only on the upward trajectory for a limited time.
Liver is my number one most hated food. Oh, God, I get sick talking about it!
It's football all day on Sunday. I wish we had football every day; that would make me way happier. Why can't we have that? You've got all these teams! Why can't we just play a Monday game, a Tuesday game, a Wednesday game?
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.
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.
Nothing, not even an avocado pit, keeps guacamole green for too long once it's made.
I'm a stocky 210 pounds.
I was raised not so much in a puritan environment, but for the most part, a pretty healthy one.
I have three wood-fired ovens... I have one at my house, one at my ranch, one on the trailer that I use for charity events.
A lot of people who like sushi don't really like raw fish or seaweed.
Howie Mandel is the real deal.
I'm not a religious person by any means.
I always wish for more time at home or at the restaurants or on the shows.
I'm a chef, I own restaurants, and there's a behavior in the kitchen you have to have.
I wanted to work in corporate restaurants.
After a show, people say, 'I bet you want to just sit back and relax.' No way. First thing I want to do when I'm home is cook.
Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
