If you can't sell tickets you'll struggle.

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.

It is easier to bear the worries of wandering than to find peace in your hometown, where only the sage can live in a happy house surrounded by trite troubles and daily distractions.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

As you get older, you have different tools, and you learn to use photography differently.

Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.

If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings.

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.