160 Quotes by Gordon Ramsay

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

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

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

Adapting a recipe’s ingredients is completely in your hands. But the method is what really matters. The techniques in cooking are rigorous and imperative: They are your passport to a successful dish. Cooks must practice, practice, practice. Anyone can learn, but you need focus, proper understanding, and to go at the right pace, not running before you can walk.

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

I like finding talent. That’s what really turns me on, I suppose.

When you’re cooking in the premier league of restaurants, when things go down, it has to be sorted immediately.

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