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• You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.

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• You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

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

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• When you’re a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don’t actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I’ll do, and especially when I’m in New York, I’ll go for a run. And I’ll run 10 or 15k on my – and I run to gain my appetite.

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

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• When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

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• The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

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

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

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• No one saw the recession coming.

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• My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

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• Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

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

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• 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.

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

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• If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

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Gordon Ramsay (60)

Birth:	8th November, 1966
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Chef, Restaurateur, Television Personality

About

Gordon James Ramsay was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. He is a scottish chef, restaurateur, and television personality. His restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total. His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held 3 Michelin stars since 2001. He is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen, The F Word, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, along with the American versions of Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, and Hotel Hell.

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