Gordon James Ramsay Jr., better known as Gordon Ramsay by his fans, is a chef, restaurateur and a television personality from Great Britain. He was born on the 8th of November in the year of 1966. Gordon Ramsay is currently aged 52 years old now. Ramsay’s signature restaurant, which is called the Restaurant Gordon Ramsay located in Chelsea of London, has the honor of holding three Michelin stars since the year of 2001. He gained notoriety in television due to his violent temper and due to his penchant for cursing on national television.
Gordon Ramsay played football at a young age. When he was 19, he started taking up an interest in cooking and thanks to that passion, he has become a celebrity chef that is recognizable all over the world. Ramsay first appeared on television in the United Kingdom in the late era of the 1990s, and by the year 2004, Gordon Ramsay had made his name and become one of the best known and a widely acclaimed chef in British pop culture. He is best known for starring as a celebrity judge on the cooking show called the MasterChef. He is one of the richest celebrities on the planet with a net worth of well over a $100 million.
- “If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “Best to start at the bottom & gradually climb up. It’s much more fun, too.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “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
- “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
- “The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “Push your limit to the absolute extreme.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “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
- “I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “What’s frustrating more than anything is when chefs start to cut corners and believe that they are incognito in the way they send out appetizers, entrees, and they know it’s not 100 percent, but they think the customers can’t spot it.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “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
- “When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody’s ego, that’s it, game over.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “I am a chef who happens to appear on the telly, that’s it.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “I’m quite a chauvinistic person.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “You don’t come into cooking to get rich.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “You know how arrogant the French are – extraordinary.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “I’ve never been a hands-on dad. I’m not ashamed to admit it, but you can’t run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “Being a chef never seems like a job, it becomes a true passion.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “There’s no bigger pain anywhere in the world than a vegetarian.” – Gordon Ramsay
- “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
