Best Gordon Ramsay Quotes & Sayings

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

My childhood favourite is mum's shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding and roasted potatoes. I remember coming home from school and going to the kitchen to help her. It's because of her that I discovered my love for cooking. — Gordon Ramsay

The essence of Reality TV is all about drama. So, I think bringing pressure is healthy whether it's a professional chef or a domestic chef. Because the only way ever to really identify the true purpose of how good they are is submerging them under pressure. So I say it's no different than a live football game because it's about the intensity. — Gordon Ramsay

Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that. — Gordon Ramsay

That's a hard one because right now it seems that all I'm watching is Teletoons and Nickelodeon. You know what I love? I love Criminal Minds. I love CSI. Those are my kind of shows. I also love Modern Family ... MasterChef, I'm huge into that. I'm a big Gordon Ramsay fan ... I don't get a whole lot of time to watch anything but, if I can, those are some of the ones that I do tend to watch. — Teryl Rothery

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

I just do little jokes all the time and people think I'm serious. I know exactly who Gordon Ramsay is, I know exactly who Gordon Brown is ... I just say jokes but they think I'm serious which I think is funny and I think I kind of play up the image sometimes because - whatever - it's just entertainment. — Paris Hilton

It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago. — Gordon Ramsay

MasterChef Junior for me was about working closely with these kids and getting them to reeducate their parents to understand that food is as important educationally as Math and English and it's important that we don't take it for granted. — Gordon Ramsay

I know for an absolute fact that if I ate a meal at one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, I would be able to taste his anger. — John Cheese

I mean, families are weird. — Gordon Ramsay

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters. — Gordon Ramsay

Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It's much more fun, too. — 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.
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There are very few chefs both in Britain and the States that really identify the secret of being consistent. And combine consistency with flavor. — Gordon Ramsay

I'm quite a chauvinistic person. — Gordon Ramsay

I came up from a difficult background. — 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've always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world. — Gordon Ramsay

I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick. — Gordon Ramsay

I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal. — Gordon Ramsay

I train my chefs with a blindfold. I'll get my sous chef and myself to cook a dish. The young chef would have to sit down and eat it with a blindfold. If they can't identify the flavor, they shouldn't be cooking the dish. — Gordon Ramsay

I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent. — Gordon Ramsay

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

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

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts. — Gordon Ramsay

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now. — 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 was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler. — Gordon Ramsay

My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon. — Gordon Ramsay

I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that's it. — Gordon Ramsay

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

What's frustrating more than anything is when chefs start to cut corners and believe that they are incognito in the way they send out appetizers, entrees, and they know it's not 100 percent, but they think the customers can't spot it. — Gordon Ramsay

Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes. — Gordon Ramsay