Quotes from Gordon Ramsay

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.

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

I came up from a difficult background.

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.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

It's vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

In order to create a little bit of confidence, start cooking with pasta. Pasta is phenomenal. Once you've cooked pasta properly for the first time it becomes second nature.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

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

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

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.

The level of jealousy and insecurity in this industry [restaurant] is far greater than ever before.

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

You don't come into cooking to get rich.

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

Chelsea has always been a foodie heaven and it will never change in that respect.

I mean, families are weird.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.

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.

I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

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

I am what I am. A fighter.