Gordon Ramsay Quotes

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.

I shoot from the hip.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

I am what I am. A fighter.

I hid myself in food.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.

We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.

I mean, families are weird.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I don’t think it’s a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef’s a fat pig.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

I am a grafter.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I’m Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I’m volatile.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

There’s a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.

When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef’s table… Unless they can identify what they’re tasting, they don’t get to cook it.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

It’s very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven’t got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.

I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that’s it.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.

I’m not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

I grew up in a funny way.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

I won’t let people write anything they want to about me.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It’s the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

I’d like to think I’m a great teacher.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

No one saw the recession coming.

I came up from a difficult background.