"I take responsibility for myself and what I do now."

"I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why."

"Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager."

"You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no."

"America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody."

"From the minute I wake up until I go to bed I think about food."

"Perhaps more than any other, the food industry is very sensitive to consumer demand."

"Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down."