Gordon Ramsay Quotes

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

I was slightly disheartened when three of my films didn't work at the box-office. But the silver lining is that people did appreciate my work in those films. Had my performance gone unnoticed, I would've been in big trouble then.

Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.

You learn from any criticism. You learn from any self-criticism. And you learn from when you do things the right way: you try to keep going.

You will get criticism throughout your career. All the best players have had it at some stage, and they haven't let it ruin their careers. I won't, either.

When things go well, the quarterback is the one who sees all the attention. When things go wrong, they are the ones who get criticized the most.

I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don't understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you've failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.

I don't buy the hype when everybody is saying how wonderful things are and how great I am, and I don't get too down when people say, "This is a disaster and he's done for."

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.

No matter how talented you are not everyone is going to like you but that's life, stay strong

When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

I believe in myself, and that's why I take criticism. You need to be very strong to survive in Bollywood. If someone calls me a bad actress, I won't live with it but will work towards improving myself.

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don't lose sight of what you're doing and who you are, you can rise above it.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devilishly hard