Ricky Hatton Fighting Quotations

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.

Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.

The fans only don't support me cos of the way I fight, they support me cos of the way I am.

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

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

I was leaving the hotel to get to the fight when my phone went and someone said 'Hello Ricky, it's Tom'. I said 'Tom who?' and when he said 'Tom Jones' I told him to eff off! I thought it was a wind-up!

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

What is happening is not ideal. Sometimes nothing goes smoothly in the preparation for fights, and that is when you have to show what kind of champion you are and deal with whatever is put in front of you. This is just another obstacle, and if it does go to court then I will be as equally determined to overcome it.

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.