I've fought at such a high level I couldn't have people look at me and say, 'well, he's just fought someone to… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
What's the point being the best fighter on the planet if no likes you? — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
Having been a world champion, I would love to go on and train a world champion too. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I want to go down as a champion who redeemed himself, made up for letting everyone down and regained his self-respect. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
Winning the world title was my goal as a kid, but being the pound-for-pound champion would be the ultimate. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
Right from the beginning I wanted to test myself against the best, against real champions. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I'm not going to say I was Britain's greatest ever world champion. I think Joe Calzaghe was the best - although I… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
What sort of champion would I be if I just stayed in my normal weight division and didn't take the big challenges… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say Floyd Mayweather Jr is running scared of Amir Khan. Floyd doesn't need to run from anybody. Look at the… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I want people to look at me as a four-time world champion, in two weight categories, as a down-to-earth man of the… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I think everyone is pretty excited about me. I have a style that any fight fan would love. I am a real… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I don't mind getting beaten by Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr and people like that, but I'd hate to go into a… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
Pacquiao has been stopped a 'couple of times by body shots and has been knocked out and I don't think there's anything… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
It was just 12 months ago that I was the one doing the chasing and looking for all the big names. I… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
What is happening is not ideal. Sometimes nothing goes smoothly in the preparation for fights, and that is when you have to… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I have been blowing past the majority of my opponents, so people get the impression of me as an attacking, body punching,… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
It makes me very, very happy to get someone a world title shot, which I've done with a few fighters, or a… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I already achieved my dream by fighting at Madison Square Garden for my second pro fight. I felt like I won the… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to fight at Madison Square Garden, Vegas and the City of Manchester Stadium. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
You know if you want to be a boxer the first time you get hit on the nose. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
If you want to watch two guys knock hell out of each other, watch us. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
If boxing had a professional boxing association or something like that, I think it would be a better place. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I don't want to be fighting at four or six-round levels - I want to fight for world titles. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I always loved training to get fit, make all those sacrifices that you do, but it just wasn't there after Pacquiao. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
My second pro fight was at Madison Square Garden, on the undercard of Naseem Hamed's fight against Kevin Kelley. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
Mayweather was my first professional defeat and I took it really, really hard. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
They say 'you've over trained, you've left it in the gym' is the most common phrase used in boxing but my god… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
I think if you get the opportunity to try and become the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and you turn your… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
He's a very, very clever fighter, Manny, but you'd have to say the cleverest fighter in boxing is Mayweather. He adapts his… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
The high of victory in the ring was bigger than the biggest party. You'd get in the ring and hear thousands of… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share Image
People say maybe I could have got better performances out of myself or I could have a got few more fights out of myself… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
I think if you get the opportunity to try and become the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and you turn your back on… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
He's a very, very clever fighter, Manny, but you'd have to say the cleverest fighter in boxing is Mayweather. He adapts his style against… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
It doesn't matter how many people say 'well, everyone makes mistakes Ricky, you've had a great career you should be proud of yourself' but… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
Kostya Tszyu was the best payday of my career to that point, even though I thought it should have been better. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
I've been giving a little gamble on the roulette and just sitting having a coffee with the fans, chatting away. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
It's unbelievable really. For something that started off as a hobby, I ended up getting paid for doing it. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
Winning the world title was my goal as a kid, but being the pound-for-pound champion would be the ultimate. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
I don't want to be fighting at four or six-round levels - I want to fight for world titles. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time. — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
Muhammad Ali was the one who started it, winding up his opponents, but he always did it with a twinkle in his eye and… — Ricky Hatton Copy Share
