“I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.”

“I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.”

“I know for an absolute fact that if I ate a meal at one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants, I would be able to taste his anger.”

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

“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.”

“I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.”

“I grew up in a funny way.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.”

“I hid myself in food.”

“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.”