Gordon quotes from Hell's Kitchen

Sharon clearly showed great attention to detail. Unfortunately, it wasn't for her cooking. It was for her makeup.

Thank you. Thank you for giving me one big fucking headache.

I can teach someone how to cook but Craig was a bad cook with an even worse attitude. There was no hope for him.

Louross was never short on energy. He was just short on cooking ability.

There once was a boy named Matt, whose kitchen performance fell flat. He was far from neat, miserable on meat, so I kicked him out and that's that.

I found it quite strange that Wil didn't even have the will to succeed. He clearly didn't belong in Hell's Kitchen.

Something's really bugging me, you know that. And I can't stop thinking about it, and here's why. If a customer goes out for dinner and their steak is slightly overcooked or undercooked, it gets redone. And they move on and enjoy the evening. But if a customer goes out for dinner and they get served a butt of lettuce, that's how reputations get destroyed in minutes, [to J] butthead.

There was no place in the kitchen I could put Colleen where she wasn't a disaster. It's time for her to go back to where she belongs, teaching. Because she certainly can't cook.

I kept Ben and Lacey, because J put the kitchen is such a hole that they never stood a chance. They're very lucky that I sent J packing.

L.A. was a workhorse in the kitchen. I kicked her out of Hell's Kitchen, because she lacks two crucial skills to be a great chef- leadership and creativity.

Carol knew she was out of the depth in Hell's Kitchen. I just put her out of her misery.

[calls the five chefs back in the kitchen after Giovanni's elimination.] I just spent the last hour upstairs in my office thinking. It just doesn't make sense! How can the final six be so shit? I called you all down here because on the back of that performance, I'm now going to do something I have never ever done before. I'm shutting down Hell's Kitchen.

Melinda was completely lost in space. So I sent her back to whatever planet she came from.

If people were named for their cooking, her name wouldn't be Lovely. It would be Useless.

(After eliminating Jim from Hell's Kitchen) Big man, let me tell you something. I can teach a chef how to cook but I can't give you a heart. You're not the Tin Man and I'm not the fucking Wizard of Oz.