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
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 problem with Yanks is they are wimps.
If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.
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.
I'm quite a chauvinistic person.
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.
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.
I hid myself in food.
I don't run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.
