Quotes By Gordon Ramsay

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.

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

I came up from a difficult background.

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.

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

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

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.

No one saw the recession coming.

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.

I've got nothing to hide.

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 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.

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

I grew up in a funny way.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I shoot from the hip.

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

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

I mean, families are weird.

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