I think if you've been given something in life you have a moral duty to give things back.

Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility.

Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Gastronomy is the greatest form of therapy that anyone can be exposed to.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

Strategy will compensate the talent. The talent will never compensate the strategy.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

Nobody can guard Kobe one-on-one. Nobody.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

Love means tearing down the separateness and the boundaries between your heart feelings and another person.

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

I was the laziest white kid my dad ever met.

I think everyone is pretty excited about me. I have a style that any fight fan would love. I am a real value-for-money fighter. People want to see me against the elite.

I pay for things cause I want that slight edge over others.