Gordon Ramsay

No one saw the recession coming.

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

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.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

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.

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

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

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

I'm quite a chauvinistic person.

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

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

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.