Michael Symon Quotes
Never let the pressure get so big that you stop cooking and being who you are. I'm going to win or lose doing my food. Because when the pressure's on, you need to do food that you're very comfortable with.
Quotes to Explore
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Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.
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I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.
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My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.
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We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.
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My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.
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I believe whenever you're winning and doing the right thing, you're stats will be fine, and everything else will come in place.
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Winning the second grand slam, it was a bit different. I don't have anything to prove anymore. I am at the top: number one.
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While most individuals use the flesh of the coconut in their cooking, coconut water and oil are also known to have numerous health benefits.
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When I got married and when my sister got married, my mom made us both individual cooking books with all of our family recipes and pictures and kind of the history with our Sicilian family, so that was really special.
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We think that this message - of someone that's from the private sector that built a company and now wants to shrink a government and grow an economy - is a winning message.
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I'm not cooking every day anymore, and that's the biggest withdrawal. Cooking is honest work. Now I don't know how to measure myself.
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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
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I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.
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Never let the pressure get so big that you stop cooking and being who you are. I'm going to win or lose doing my food. Because when the pressure's on, you need to do food that you're very comfortable with.
