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

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.

Minds are like flowers, they only open when the time is right.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.

Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music.

With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.