You can't let a man like this beat you.

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.

Everything on earth has happened before, nothing is new, but woe to the loverswho fail to discover a fresh blossomin every future kiss.

My wife and I had words - but I never got to use mine.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

I have a lot of nightmares.

Always deliver more in 'perceived value' than you take in cash value.

China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods.

Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

All musicians are potential band leaders.

If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.