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

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" I cook, I create, I'm incredibly excited by what I do, I've still got a lot to achieve. "

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

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

" I won't let people write anything they want to about me. "

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

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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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" I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now. "

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

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

" I am a grafter. "

" 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. "

" I've got nothing to hide. "

" I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure. "

" 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. "

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" I shoot from the hip. "

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

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" I came up from a difficult background. "

" 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. "

" You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary. "