The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.

- Gordon Ramsay

No one saw the recession coming.

- Gordon Ramsay

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

- Gordon Ramsay

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.

- Gordon Ramsay

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.

- Gordon Ramsay

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

- Gordon Ramsay

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

- Gordon Ramsay

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.

- Gordon Ramsay

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.

- Gordon Ramsay

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.

- Gordon Ramsay

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.

- Gordon Ramsay

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

- 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.

- Gordon Ramsay

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

- Gordon Ramsay

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

- Gordon Ramsay

I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef's table... Unless they can identify what they're tasting, they don't get to cook it.

- Gordon Ramsay

I am what I am. A fighter.

- Gordon Ramsay

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

- Gordon Ramsay

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

- Gordon Ramsay

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

- Gordon Ramsay