Gordon Ramsay Quotes

121 Gordon Ramsay Quotes

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People pay big money for food which tastes phenomenal, not just for something which looks pretty when it gets to your table.
Gordon Ramsay

[On recalling his belief that he was earning around 100 pounds a week when some of his former Glasgow Rangers teammates were earning 5,000 pounds a week.] It was hard and it hurt to think of it. but I became even more determined not to fail again.
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The two and a half years I had in France were the most important cooking years of my life. The French have cooking at the forefront of their psyche and I was encouraged to feel the same. I built some fantastic foundations for my future in those years.
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I want my cooking to be able to say: ‘That’s me on the plate.’
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People don’t wait for two months to eat cock-up food that hasn’t been checked by me personally. It has to be perfect.
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I’m not a smarmy-arse.
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I can’t suck up to people.
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I don’t want to produce clones.
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I let myself go because I was totally possessed and totally obsessed with getting the place right.
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[On his father] No one should die at just 53. I am so angry at him for dying so young and for not looking after himself.
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I don’t give a sh*t.
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I’m protective of my family and my staff.
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I do care what my mother thinks.
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I put on a different coat when I go to work, like everyone else does. Yes, I get angry, yes, I swear and, yes, some people hate it. But I’m doing it for a specific reason, to get the very best results and create the very best food. I’m a different man inside and outside of the kitchen and I will never apologise for that.
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Parents can put a huge amount of emotional baggage on their children and it can make or break them.
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I don’t want to see a wimp – I can’t stand wimps.
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Everyone is expecting me to fall… But bollocks. The only people saying that are the jealous bastards who didn’t work hard enough to be offered this kind of position in the first place.
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Yes, it’s my Gordon Ramsay at Claridge’s restaurant. It is generating a hurricane of acitivity. Yesterday we received more than 500 telephone calls for reservations. And 300 faxes. The response has been phenomenal and, in only the second week, we have welcomed 1,500 clients. The breathing, sweaty monster lives in the telephone. Booking is open from 8am to 10pm – and there are four telephonists trying to secure the breach every time a fresh wave crashes through.
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[On Nigella Lawson] She’s sex on legs. Every chef in the country would love her in the kitchen, but we’d never get any work done.
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[On Marco Pierre White an early mentor.] I owe Marco a great debt. It was he who put me on the road to where I am today.
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I want to roll out the talent… The way I see it, if the people I’ve taught don’t go on to be big stars in their own right I’ve f*cked up.
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People think I struggle for staff because I’m an arsehole to work for. But I guarantee my staff complete honesty which is important when you spend so many hours a day together. I know my guys put their lives on hold for me, so I want it to be worth their while.
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The waiters know that I charge them for breakages, for example. I pay for the first breakage, but after that they have to pay and it is surprising how long it takes to break that second plate. I pay for perfection, not accidents and mistakes.
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[On traffic fines.] The better the car, the more they like ticketing it.
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I’d rather work for the Vegan Society than be a traffic warden.
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[On an idea for the name of his third daughter. Who was later named Matilda.] It sounds daft, but she looks like a Coriander. That’s the name that came into my head as soon as I saw her.
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I hate the smell of poo.
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I don’t smoke, I don’t drink. I go to the gym three days a week and run 40 miles.
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If you’re not here to enjoy it later in life, what’s the point?
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That’s what seems hardest to get across to some… who think it might be glamorous and social to run a restaurant. It isn’t. It’s hard f*cking work day in and day out and I can’t believe how many people haven’t woken up to that yet.
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[On how tough things were going to be.] You will have to sweep the floor ten times an hour, peel a bucket of onions, cook for the staff. You will also scrub clean your own pans because this stops you from burning things. You’ll be amazed how careful chefs are if they know they have to scrape the burned gunk off the bottom of their own saucepans. I don’t give a damn about diplomacy or delicacy. The more honest I am with you the better you will become.
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Everyone was being paid a fortune to be on that show, so I wasn’t going to allow anyone to think they didn’t have to work.
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I’m not a celebrity chef. I’m a f*cking chef. Period. I don’t have a long shot, a wide shot and three times to rehearse the f*cking Gordon Ramsay pastry.
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Everything I do is natural. It’s live. It’s me.
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One minute you are shagging the Prime Minister and now you are trying to shag me from behind.
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[On what he wants carved on his gravestone.] I am not a television chef.
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[On his relationship with his wife.] We get on like a house on fire, always have, but I dread to think what the relationship would be like if I was there seven nights a week.
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I’d rather be a dad fantastically twice a week than methodically five times a week.
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[‘Did you get the tracksuit?’ – Tana Ramsay] No, I forgot. But we did buy a rabbit.
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[On whether he would ever serve ostrich and kangaroo meat in his restaurants?] No. because what are you meant to say to your kids when you take them to the zoo and they see all those animals running around? How are you going to explain that?
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[About trips to Disney World.] Bores the crap out of me.
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