Gordon Ramsay Quotes Page 2

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

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

“Initially, let your food do the talking. You’ll be surprised how far you go in a short period of time.”

“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.”

“It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.”

“Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.”

“My gran could do better! And she’s dead!”

“My industry, I’m sorry to say, is full of muppets.”

“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.”

“One lesson to any young chef out there: never mix family with business.”

“Push your limit to the absolute extreme.”

“Put the emotion in the food, because it’s so much more rewarding down the line.”

“Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.”

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

“Stop taking things personally.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.”

“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.”

“There's enough garlic in here to kill every vampire in Europe.”

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

“This crab is so undercooked I can still hear it singing ‘Under the Sea’.”

“This lamb is so undercooked, it’s following Mary to school!”

“This pizza is so disgusting, if you take it to Italy you’ll get arrested.”

“Two key ingredients in any successful chef: a quick learner and someone with a sharp brain.”

“When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.”

“Why did the chicken cross the road? Because you didn’t f*cking cook it!”

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

“You added so much salt and pepper I can hear the dish singing ‘Push It’.”