"I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning."

"The kitchen's a laboratory, and everything that happens there has to do with science. It's biology, chemistry, physics. Yes, there's history. Yes, there's artistry. Yes, to all of that. But what happened there, what actually happens to the food is all science."

"Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs."

"I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time."

"I manage a team, for beach soccer. I'm the coach. Player, coach."

"The determination to win is the better part of winning."

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything."

"Life must be lived as play."