I am what I am. A fighter.

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.

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.

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

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.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

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

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

There's a bond among a kitchen staff, I think. You spend more time with your chef in the kitchen than you do with your own family.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Your mind is the doorkeeper of your soul and heart the king. It's unwise to let the doorkeeper control the king.

We just have to live each new day as if it’s a precious gift. When I wake up in the morning I like to think that this day will be better than any day I’ve ever lived.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

The word "superstar" is an ilusion

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.

The international game has changed for bidding cities.

Much more devastating than frustration is the emotion of disappointment.

If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.