160 Quotes by Gordon Ramsay

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.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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