Top 90 Gordon Ramsay Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Push your limit to the absolute extreme.”

— Gordon Ramsay

2. “Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.”

— Gordon Ramsay

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3. “I am what I am. A fighter.”

— Gordon Ramsay

4. “There’s no bigger pain anywhere in the world than a vegetarian.”

— Gordon Ramsay

5. “I hid myself in food.”

— Gordon Ramsay

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

— Gordon Ramsay

7. “Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.”

— Gordon Ramsay

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

— Gordon Ramsay

9. “You don’t come into cooking to get rich.”

— Gordon Ramsay

10. “I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.”

— Gordon Ramsay

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

— Gordon Ramsay

12. “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

13. “I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.”

— Gordon Ramsay

14. “I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.”

— Gordon Ramsay

15. “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.”

— Gordon Ramsay

16. “The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.”

— Gordon Ramsay

17. “The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.”

— Gordon Ramsay

18. “I shoot from the hip.”

— Gordon Ramsay

19. “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

20. “If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.”

— Gordon Ramsay

21. “I’m quite a chauvinistic person.”

— Gordon Ramsay

22. “I didn’t get depressed, I don’t get depressed.”

— Gordon Ramsay

23. “I am well aware that a chef is only as good as his last meal.”

— Gordon Ramsay

24. “Stopping the junk food and Eating well is partially about cooking well and having the skills to do that.”

— Gordon Ramsay

25. “They say cats have nine lives. I’ve had 12 already and I don’t know how many more I’ll have.”

— Gordon Ramsay

26. “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

27. “I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.”

— Gordon Ramsay

28. “When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.”

— Gordon Ramsay

29. “Eating out doesn’t have to be a formula. Eating out is about having fun. I get really frustrated when it’s badly done.”

— Gordon Ramsay

30. “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

31. “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

32. “Cooking today is a young man’s game, I don’t give a bollocks what anyone says.”

— Gordon Ramsay

33. “Where’s the lamb sauce?!”

— Gordon Ramsay

34. “Addicts are selfish, the most selfish people you’ll ever meet. And self-pitying. And manipulative. Always making promises they’ll never keep. They disgust me.”

— Gordon Ramsay

35. “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

36. “Being assertive and somewhat really firm has to be backed up with being fair.”

— Gordon Ramsay

37. “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

38. “I came up from a difficult background.”

— Gordon Ramsay

39. “I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.”

— Gordon Ramsay

40. “Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.”

— Gordon Ramsay

41. “I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.”

— Gordon Ramsay

42. “I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that’s it.”

— Gordon Ramsay

43. “The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.”

— Gordon Ramsay

44. “I love eating out. I don’t deny that. But I don’t want 12 or 15 courses because the chef wants me to taste this or taste that. I just want to be able to decide.”

— Gordon Ramsay

45. “But sometimes you have to question even the best and greatest. Cookery is quite a journey. Take nothing for granted.”

— Gordon Ramsay

46. “I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.”

— Gordon Ramsay

47. “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

48. “I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.”

— Gordon Ramsay

49. “However amazing a dish looks, it is always the taste that lingers in your memory. Family and friends will appreciate a meal that tastes superb-even if you’ve brought the pan to the table.”

— Gordon Ramsay

50. “I’m a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.”

— Gordon Ramsay