My mom always says, “Pack your smile,” but [the sound guy] articulated it beautifully, because he saw me go from Joe Schmo who had been on food stamps to Adam Richman from Man V. Food.
ADAM RICHMANThere are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.
More Adam Richman Quotes
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I’m a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London –
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My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book.
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“Okay, that’s kind of conceivable.” If you’re talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.
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I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps
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If it’s a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it’s hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.
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I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it’s probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.
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I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.
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I’ll go to a restaurant where I’ve never been before, and someone will say, “I don’t have anything big for you to eat.” I used to be a little salty about that, but at the end of the day
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Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.
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It’s not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is – imagine the cartilage of game meat.
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People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
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One of my great personal triumphs is, because I stay vigilant about my health
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When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think.
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So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.
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There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, “The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam,” you’d say,
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