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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" I came up from a difficult background. "

" 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. "

" 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 was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick. "