Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.

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

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

I'm going to say hello to two friends who I've shut out of my life for the past 10 weeks while I trained the hardest I've ever done for a fight. So welcome back Mr Guinness and Mr Dom Perignon.

I've got a problem with my legs, they just can't walk past a chippy.

He's won't push me back on the night and he certainly wasn't going to push me back up there.

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

What sort of champion would I be if I just stayed in my normal weight division and didn't take the big challenges on? Bring them on, that's what Ricky Hatton's all about.

My first world title gave me the confidence to go and do bigger and better things.

As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.

The world is not a ‘thing’ (eternal element). It is a wrong belief (vikalp) of the Soul.

I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

Healthy body image is not something that youre going to learn from fashion magazines.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

Every single child should have the chance to live up to his or her God-given potential.

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.

It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.

Renouncing the worldly pleasures is a comfort for both the human heart and body.

The after-silence, when the feast is o'er,And void the places where the minstrels stood,Differs in nought from what hath been before,And is nor ill nor good.