When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises.
There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U. S. Thierry Henry, for example.
I'm Adam Richman. A food fanatic who's held nearly every job in the restaurant biz. Now I'm on a mouth-watering journey to find America's greatest pig-out spots. And take on the country's most legendary eating challenges. I'm no competitive eater, just a regular guy with a serious appetite. This is my ultimate hunger quest. This is Man v. Food.
You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.
If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.
People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.
I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.
I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.
You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.
I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. Im not sure the numbers are as large because I think the burden of getting elected to public office at the national level has become astronomically expensive.