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Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.
The minute you start compromising for the sake of massaging somebody's ego, that's it, game over.
The pressure on young chefs today is far greater than ever before in terms of social skills, marketing skills, cooking skills, personality and, more importantly, delivering on the plate. So you need to be strong. Physically fit. So my chefs get weighed every time they come into the kitchen.
There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
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.
They say cats have nine lives. I've had 12 already and I don't know how many more I'll have.
We are about creating a new wave of talent. We are the Manchester United of kitchens now. Am I playing full-time in the kitchen? I am a player-coach.
When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.
When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.
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.
Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.
You don't come into cooking to get rich.
You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.
All the really good players I know, they all knew right from wrong. So many of them don't learn that at home nowadays.
Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.
Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment which is actually quite nice but you need to go up and down to stay alive.
Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise.
I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.
I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.
I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.
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