Gordon Ramsay Quotes

121 Gordon Ramsay Quotes

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[On his mother] You have to admire the loyalty of a woman who puts her children first. And that’s where I get my determination from. From her, without a doubt.
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I had failed once in life. I swore I would never fail at anything ever again.
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I believe that, if you want to be the best, then you have to work for the best.
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I want to have the Manchester United of kitchens and I love watching chefs who I have taught go on to be independent young businesswomen and businessmen.
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I just got on with it.
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The more honest I am with you the better you will become.
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I hate to ruin a good party but, if you want to run a good business, then the terms ‘laid-back’ and ‘professional’ don’t mix.
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I’m as driven as any man you’ll ever meet.
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Every dish, every meal, every day has to be perfection.
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I pay for perfection, not accidents and mistakes.
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I had a work ethic forced into me from the very first time I worked in a professional kitchen. I learned that you can’t do this job with half your mind.
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In my job I get up, go to work and get on with it…
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Stay close to the kitchen.
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I am still learning… I’m still getting better.
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The day that I can accept that opening a scallop properly doesn’t matter is the day I have to get out of this business.
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Bullsh*t.
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I wanted it to be a one-man crusade to turn those places around… I was serious about putting the hours in here and serious about turning these places around.
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There are too many bad places to eat in Britain when there doesn’t need to be any of them.
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I’ve suffered and I’ve learned every day in my career and I think I’ve got enough knowledge to pass on to other people. Whether they take my advice or not is up to them. But I think I can prove I know what works.
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I only did it because I couldn’t exactly ram a rolling pin up his arse on television.
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You’re f*cking 21, for f*ck’s sake! You should be getting 12 f*cking hard-ons a day.
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[In 2005] My life has been an incredible rollercoaster ride.
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[On his childhood.] We didn’t have a lot of money, so it was a very hard upbringing with very limited food on the table. We never sat down to a starter, main course and pudding and we had to eat everything we were given. There was no such thing as ‘don’t like’ in our family.
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[On his father.] At one point he sold the family car to pay for a ticket to Texas, where he had planned to spend three months playing with a band. The first everyone else in the family knew what he had done was when the finance company turned up to collect the keys. You just don’t forget those kinds of situations. Mum struggling to pay the bills and putting up with all this sh*t.
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[On his mother and domestic violence.] The reason she seemed so weak was because she was defending our arses. You have to admire the loyalty of a woman who puts her children first. And that’s where I get my determination from. From her, without a doubt.
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I was naturally aggressive…
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[On the Glascow Rangers and himself at the age of 16.] Even if they didn’t like my game, they must have still liked my attitude.
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I was a pretty determined player…
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[On regular sporting injuries.] So many things go through your mind, your confidence is wiped out and you become paranoid.
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[On being told to drop down from Glasgow Rangers from a year with the sporting injuries.] I took the failure very, very badly, like any 18 year old would. I couldn’t move on and I wanted to forget about it.
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I had to let go of what I loved first, and that was hard. I’d been so close. And I felt so bitter for so long.
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I dropped football like a f*cking lead balloon…
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Dad had also stopped paying the mortgage, so the building society repossessed the house – the home of her own that my mother had longed for all her life. She was humiliated again, and her dream was shattered.
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I had six weeks of being a waiter, which was a disaster. I only lasted four days working the tables and spent the rest of the time in the kitchen. And I loved it. I loved it instantly, big time. The boisterousness, the hassle, the shouting, the screaming, the activity. I found a sense of freedom there.
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I’ve got to get it right. I was obsessed with never again being told that I’m not good enough. I had failed once in life. I swore I would never fail at anything ever again.
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If I can’t have a FA Cup winner’s medal, I want a third Michelin star.
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It was one thing to tell his mates that his son was playing for Rangers, but quite another to say I was training to be a cook. ‘Stay away from catering,’ he said to me at one point. ‘It’s girly and effeminate.’ I don’t think he ever really forgave me when I ignored him.
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[On the restaurant business.] I had no idea I was going to be good at it but I loved it from day one.
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I believe that, if you want to be the best, then you have to work for the best. If you do, there’s no automatic assumption that you will make it. But that’s where you have to start.
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The most important thing for a chef is that you’ve got to be able to take a bollocking. The trick is to remember that none of the insults is meant to be personal.
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