Gordon Ramsay Quotes

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Family, Hate, Two

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Forward, Busy, Looking

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

Work, Great, Become

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Yourself, Wanted, Winner

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Good, Fat, Chef

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

Game, Ego, Start

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Change, Long, Alive

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Time, Today, Strong

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

Insecure, Last, Souls

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Family, Time, Chef

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Love, Good, Job

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

Passion, May, Cooking

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Work, Down, Before

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.
Gordon Ramsay

Act, Instincts, Impulse

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.
Gordon Ramsay

Strong, Hard, Characters

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Work, Trust, Family

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Romantic, Strong, Give

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.
Gordon Ramsay

Perfection, Pressure, Trade

You don't come into cooking to get rich.
Gordon Ramsay

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

Today, Game, Give

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Experience, Yourself, Bad

I am what I am. A fighter.
Gordon Ramsay

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.
Gordon Ramsay

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.
Gordon Ramsay

Talent, Playing, United

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

Happens, Chef, Appear

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Chef

Born: November 8, 1966

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