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69 Famous Quotes By Gordon Ramsay, The Celebrity Chef
One of the most iconic faces of television worldwide, Gordon Ramsay is a celebrated British chef and restaurateur, renowned for his spitfire temper, explicit language and strict demeanor. Ramsay, along with fellow chefs Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and Joe Bastianich, has been a judge on the globally successful culinary show ‘Masterchef’ for several seasons. He also featured in other prominent American and British competitive cookery shows such as ‘Hell's Kitchen’, ‘The F Word’, ‘Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmare’ and ‘Hotel Hell’. Gordon stole the limelight with his point-blank controversial disparages about contestant’s cooking abilities in these shows. He owns popular eateries in various countries all over England, United States, Canada, Italy, France, Ireland, UAE, Japan and Australia. Amongst the 22 books published by Gordon, some of the notable ones are ‘Gordon Ramsay's Secrets’, ‘Gordon Ramsay's Ultimate Cookery Course’ and ‘Playing With Fire’. He also featured in various multiple part documentaries namely ‘Boiling Point’, ‘Ramsay – Trouble at the Top’ and ‘Love's Kitchen’. Let us go through some of the most straightforward quotes and sayings from this no nonsense celebrity chef from Britain, highlighting his thoughts, his passion and life. Take a look at the most famous quotable quotes and thoughts by Gordon Ramsay.
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
Gordon Ramsay
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
Don't take it personally. Just take it seriously.
Gordon Ramsay
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.
Gordon Ramsay
That's common sense Joe! And your tiny mind is not common!
Gordon Ramsay
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.
I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve.
Gordon Ramsay
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
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
Eh! All of you! come here!! taste it! taste it, taste it, taste it!!!
Gordon Ramsay
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 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.
I'm Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I'm volatile.
Gordon Ramsay
You’ve got to kiss arse to get somewhere, to learn. Clock-watchers are no good at kissing arse.
Gordon Ramsay
Addicts are selfish, the most selfish people you’ll ever meet. And self-pitying. And manipulative. Always making promises they’ll never keep. They disgust me.
Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.
Gordon Ramsay
I recall when we opened in New York how the designer locks were impossible to slide shut, often leading to a difficult encounter no matter which side of the door you were on.
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.
Gordon Ramsay
No one saw the recession coming.
Gordon Ramsay
I shoot from the hip.
Gordon Ramsay
I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
Gordon Ramsay
There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
Gordon Ramsay
I am a grafter.
Gordon Ramsay
I hid myself in food.
Gordon Ramsay
I've got nothing to hide.
Gordon Ramsay
I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.
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
Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
Gordon Ramsay
I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today.
Gordon Ramsay
If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.
Gordon Ramsay
Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.
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.
I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.
Gordon Ramsay
I am what I am. A fighter.
Gordon Ramsay
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.
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 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.
Gordon Ramsay
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
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.
