Gordon Ramsay Quotes

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Gordon Ramsay

Profession : Chef

Birth : November 8, 1966

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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You don't come into cooking to get rich.

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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.

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I shoot from the hip.

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I mean, families are weird.

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You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

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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.

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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.

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