Gordon Ramsay Quotes

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

You have to deal with rejection at every stage, whether you audition for the part and don't get it, you get the part and it gets terrible reviews, or it gets great reviews but then nobody sees it.

I would play like one minute or not even get in at all. I'd see on Twitter - people would say, 'I hate that Grayson Allen guy at the end of the bench.' I'm like, 'What did I do?! I was in the game for 30 seconds.'

In London, the food critics are harsher, the clients milder; in Hong Kong, the clients are harsher, the critics milder.

As a striker, what you got used to on a daily basis, it is to be applauded when you score goals. When the opposite happens, it's difficult.

After you win, people expect you to always play so good. When that doesn't happen, it's hard to deal with.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

I'm not saying the persona on 'Strictly' isn't me - it's just that the nurturing side, which is also a part of who I am, isn't what I'm there for. I'm there to judge and to give an honest opinion, even if it's not the opinion someone wants to hear.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

I'm probably the only guy in hockey who can win a scoring title and everybody is saying I had a bad year. I don't worry about it.

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

It reads better than it lives

I turned 30 and everyone told me I would feel different and I didn't. So I thought I'd move to New York.

I'm really excited that people are receiving my performance like this. It makes me feel good, because I've been working really hard. And this character [Idi Amin], I worked particularly hard on. But I don't want to get too caught up in it, because first of all, it could lead to a great disappointment. You never know what's going to happen.

Like someone once said, "If you're going to play the part, you better wear the eye patch." You need to perform the function, you know.

If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.