Famous Quotes

"I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports."

Rene Redzepi on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

  Michael Jordan on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by Rene Redzepi

• "People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy."

• "Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it."

• "Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food."

• "I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy."

• "I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends."