Top 12 Gordon Ramsay Quotes
7. “I’m Gordon Ramsay, for goodness sake: people know I’m volatile. I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies. At the end of the day, I’m not the only person who swears. I get it off my chest and move on. I’ve got four amazing kids – I don’t go round the house swearing.”
8. “The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.”
9. “Going into an insecure world a couple of times before you’re 30 makes you a lot stronger. 18 to 30 is your sponge period. That’s the same period in any profession. After that, that’s when you take off. You have to take what you’ve learned, be a magpie, steal the glittery bits you’ve seen elsewhere, and improve it and mould it into something you want to make.”
10. “Jason, you’re on desserts. Don’t eat any.”
11. “We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.”
12. “My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.”
