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Wrestling Quotes by Ricky Hatton

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I think if you get the chance to become the best pound‑for‑pound fighter, turning away feels like cheating. Ricky Hatton talks about chasing the world title he dreamed of as a kid, respecting clever opponents like Mayweather, and bouncing back after a brutal knockout. He stresses the need to prove a champion’s true character.

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I have no fear in moving up (in weight) and fighting.

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I know how hard it is to come back from a brutal KO.

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I think my greatest achievement in boxing is my following.

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I like to think I know my boxing.

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Boxing has been very, very good to me.

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Having been a world champion, I would love to go on and train a world champion too.

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I want to go down as a champion who redeemed himself, made up for letting everyone down and regained his self-respect.

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Winning the world title was my goal as a kid, but being the pound-for-pound champion would be the ultimate.

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What's the point being the best fighter on the planet if no likes you?

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To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.

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I want to be recognised as a great fighter; and not just in England.

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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…

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Mayweather was my first professional defeat and I took it really, really hard.

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The thing is with boxers we don't come from Cambridge and places like that, we come from council estates. So in boxing…

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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…

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I wouldn't say Floyd Mayweather Jr is running scared of Amir Khan. Floyd doesn't need to run from anybody. Look at the…

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I don't mind getting beaten by Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr and people like that, but I'd hate to go into a…

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I think everyone is pretty excited about me. I have a style that any fight fan would love. I am a real…

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I'm not going to say I was Britain's greatest ever world champion. I think Joe Calzaghe was the best - although I…

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What sort of champion would I be if I just stayed in my normal weight division and didn't take the big challenges…

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I can remember how I felt the first time I was knocked out by Floyd Mayweather Jr. My first fight afterwards was…

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I have been blowing past the majority of my opponents, so people get the impression of me as an attacking, body punching,…

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What is happening is not ideal. Sometimes nothing goes smoothly in the preparation for fights, and that is when you have to…

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It was just 12 months ago that I was the one doing the chasing and looking for all the big names. I…

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I already achieved my dream by fighting at Madison Square Garden for my second pro fight. I felt like I won the…

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It makes me very, very happy to get someone a world title shot, which I've done with a few fighters, or a…

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They say 'you've over trained, you've left it in the gym' is the most common phrase used in boxing but my god…

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The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow.

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Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

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My second pro fight was at Madison Square Garden, on the undercard of Naseem Hamed's fight against Kevin Kelley.

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If boxing had a professional boxing association or something like that, I think it would be a better place.

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I always loved training to get fit, make all those sacrifices that you do, but it just wasn't there after Pacquiao.

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I don't want to be fighting at four or six-round levels - I want to fight for world titles.

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I was fortunate enough to fight at Madison Square Garden, Vegas and the City of Manchester Stadium.

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Right from the beginning I wanted to test myself against the best, against real champions.

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You know if you want to be a boxer the first time you get hit on the nose.

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If you want to watch two guys knock hell out of each other, watch us.

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I will always wonder what might have been if I had faced Manny Pacquiao at my best. But there is no doubt…

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We think, 'I'm Ricky Hatton or I'm Tyson Fury, I can take on the world.' You can take on the world in…

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Boxers don't tend to come from Cambridge or Oxford. Sometimes the things we say don't come out well. We are not known…

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I was always very depressed, even when I was a youngster.

People say maybe I could have got better performances out of myself or I could have a got few more fights out of myself…

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…

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…

As long as I've got the love of the fans, that means everything to me.

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…

Kostya Tszyu was the best payday of my career to that point, even though I thought it should have been better.

I know how hard it is to come back from a brutal KO.

I've been giving a little gamble on the roulette and just sitting having a coffee with the fans, chatting away.

It's unbelievable really. For something that started off as a hobby, I ended up getting paid for doing it.

Winning the world title was my goal as a kid, but being the pound-for-pound champion would be the ultimate.

I don't want to be fighting at four or six-round levels - I want to fight for world titles.

You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.

Muhammad Ali was the one who started it, winding up his opponents, but he always did it with a twinkle in his eye and…

My passion is promoting and training.