Hatton Quotes & Sayings

When you are 18, 19 or 20 you can get away with more, but as you get into your twenties you realise that it is harder and harder to lose what you put on. Look at Ricky Hatton. That isn't good for you and so you know not to come back overweight or out of shape. Why? Because you'll get stick from fellow players and you'll struggle. — Colin Kazim-Richards

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. — Ricky Hatton

I've defended my title for eight years, let's see if Ricky (Hatton) is still champion in four years. — Joe Calzaghe

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time. — Sugar Ray Leonard

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! — Ricky Hatton

I have always really liked Tom Jones and I can't wait to see him in action. One thing is for sure, I would rather be singing for a living than getting punched on the head. — Ricky Hatton

531he location of a temp agency-in inner-city immigrant neighborhoods, for example-influences not only the resulting population of temps but also the job opportunities that are available (or not) to workers54 — Erin Hatton

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

If you want to watch two guys knock hell out of each other, watch us. — Ricky Hatton

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. — Ricky Hatton

This is one of the many odd and unexpected little situations where you kinda find out who you are as a mother. Will you collapse onto the parking lot in the fetal position and cry for the days when you had perky boobs, bladder control, and alone time? Or will you laugh because you see the funny in being a spaced out, overwhelmed, mess? — Stacey Hatton

I haven't had the recognition I deserve, You can go back to anybody's career - Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Steve Collins, Naseem Hamed. My record is better than all of theirs. — Carl Froch

They lied, you know," said Cpl. Allan Richmond. He hugged the
wall next to Owens. Beside him, PFC Bucky Hatton crouched low, a
Browning 1911 semiautomatic gripped tightly in his hand.
"Who?" asked Bart, glad to be out of the wind and rain, even if it
was only for a short time.
"The assholes who said France was beautiful. — Brian W. Matthews

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. — Ricky Hatton

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

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

Ricky Hatton ain't nothing but a fat man. I'm going to punch him in his beer belly when I see him. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

I've got a lot to prove because of the criticism over my weight and moving back down a division. — Ricky Hatton

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

Why is it that when Robert Redford-cum-Denys Finch Hatton flies away in the golden glow out of Africa, he is pursuing his destiny? And when I walk away I'm just a chick who's scared of commitment and on the run, who's weird for ignoring Glamour magazine's predictions of my eggs drying up? Learning is an underrated form of liberation. — Holly Morris

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter. — Tyson Fury

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

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

I think that headband and that brylcreem and that gel on his hair will do him no good should we get it on. — Ricky Hatton

Dad's tiny - his passport picture is a full-length shot. He looks like he just hopped off a key ring. Mum is a different matter, she's a bit of a handful to say the least. I love her more than anyone on this Earth. But she's a monster. — Ricky Hatton

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

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

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. — Ricky Hatton

they sought to revitalize a nineteenth-century style of employment relations in which workers were considered liabilities rather than assets. It was a style in which a company's success was in opposition to workers' welfare rather than dependent on it. — Erin Hatton

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

As long as I've got the love of the fans, that means everything to me. — Ricky Hatton

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

Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance. — Beryl Markham

he claimed to have seen sunrise from every angle. Never sunset, though. Beginnings were far more interesting than endings. One held promise, the other only darkness. — L.J. Hatton

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

What's the point being the best fighter on the planet if no likes you? — Ricky Hatton

Ricky Hatton would knock Khan out. 5 years ago or now. — Carl Froch

They call me Ricky Fatton. Mind you I've had a lot on my plate recently. I got measured for this suit the other week. They measured my pants, jacket, top to bottom. Bloody hell Ricky you're a Mark F they said, a size up from a marquee. — Ricky Hatton

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