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" There are two different things: there's grilling, and there's barbecue. Grilling is when people say, 'We're going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.' Barbecue is going low and slow. "

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" College students want good eats. They want it to not be super-expensive, but you've got to be eclectic, you've got to have style, and you've got to make real food. "

Guy Fieri

College

Good

Food

" I say to folks all the time, 'Watch what you're eating. You don't have to eat it all. Make conscious choices. It doesn't mean you have to starve yourself and eat carrots all day.' Have an awareness. "

" I'm in a very unique position in that I got to participate in the Food Network by contest. That's long gone, being voted on, but I don't forget where it came from, and I don't forget the people who worked to put me here. "

Guy Fieri

Food

Forget

" People need to take a little bit more risk. "

Guy Fieri

Need

Little

" 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? "

" Losing my sister to cancer was... That was the worst thing in the world, man. "

" People get a little bolder and more wild in summer. You've got things going on kabobs, things cooking on the bone. There's something about standing over a grill or outside with the family that inspires us. "

" Preparing food is one of life's great joys, but a lot of times, parents ask their kids if they want to cook with them and then tell them to go peel a bag of potatoes. That's not cooking - that's working! "

" I'm a chef, I own restaurants, and there's a behavior in the kitchen you have to have. "

" My parents were all into macrobiotic cooking and natural cooking, and my sister was a vegetarian. I wasn't down with that. "

" Everybody has their role in the food world and what they choose to appreciate. I'm not a fine dining chef. I appreciate it. I think Thomas Keller is amazing. But I really like where I'm at; I like what I do. I like how it makes people feel. "

" The opportunity to be a star chef, to imagine it would be here in Las Vegas, I couldn't comprehend it. "

" You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, 'Today is the best I will ever be.' I'm always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person. "

" I'm not a religious person by any means. "

" I was even more of a Hagar fan when he was just Hagar and not Van Hagar. "

Guy Fieri

Even

Just

" I have my own boat, but when I first thought about taking a cruise, I thought, 'You're going to trap me on a boat, and I'm going to walk in circles and go crazy,' but it's awesome. "

" There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot. "

" My spiked hair goes back about 15 years ago. I had long, curly rocker hair then. The woman who cuts my hair thought I needed a new style, so I let her surprise me. I flipped when I first saw it, but I soon realized the look was really me. I've always been a little crazy. "

Guy Fieri

Woman

Hair

" No one likes rubbery chicken. "

Guy Fieri

Chicken

Likes

" It's always good to go over the recipe beforehand, so you can easily think of the next thing that needs to be done. "

" I eat healthier than you think. I eat grains and vegetables when I'm home - and I eat in courses. My wife, Lori, thinks it's because I don't want foods to touch. That's not it. If you eat courses, you slow down your meal and eat less. It's a trick I picked up in France as a kid. "

" It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business. "

" I love that UNLV is a big-little school, that you can still have access and support as a student. "

" 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. "

" The No. 1 thing I hear from people when I meet them in the airport is, 'Oh my gosh, you're just like you are on TV.' Well, I'm not an actor. I don't think anyone could figure out how to be this weird. "

" 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. "

Guy Fieri

Basketball

Think

" Outdoor cooking is not just about hot dogs and hamburgers. There are so many styles of food you can make. "

" Growing up in Northern California, I've only seen snow at Christmas maybe twice in my life! I was always jealous of my cousins on the East Coast with their white Christmases. "

" I am the worst at the grocery store. It turns into three carts. It turns into, 'Oh did you see the truffle cheese? We've got to get the truffle cheese!' "

" At first, people think about vegetarian food like, 'Here's some veggies. Here's some pasta.' But there's so much more you can do in the vegetarian and vegan world. "