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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. "

" Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye. "

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

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

" I'm quite a chauvinistic person. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I act on impulse and I go with my instincts. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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