Ricky Hatton Quotes

In boxing, you get hit, it's painful, then you sit on the stool when the adrenaline is gone and you feel that pain. And then you fight the next round.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

I've never seen a truly great fighter get knocked onto the ropes unconscious... knocked out cold before... and I saw Roy Jones get knocked out twice in a row.

I'm very experienced in four-round fights because of my amateur career, and I've got a high work rate.

I'm perfectly fine with Pacquiao the Christian wanting to separate Mayweather from his senses.

I dropped Nascimento in the first round, but he came back, and I had to dig really deep because he was gaining the whole time. He ruptured my left ear drum with a right hand in the fifth round, which caused a few hearing problems, but I was able to overcome it.

If you look through my career, I put an end to a lot of guys never been knocked down, never been stopped.

I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!

I wouldn't be surprised if I knocked Ricky Hatton out. It's something that people are going to read and think I'm ridiculous, but if you look beyond what you see with naked eye, every time he gets hit clean, he's hurt.

Trout moved, that's why he survived 12 rounds. If Hurd sat in front of me and took those shots, he'd be done.

Every time I touched Ronda, connected a punch, I wanted more and more. That's why the fight was so fast. Every time I connected, I felt that she couldn't take it, so I threw more and only stopped when it was over. But it was good.

People say I don't punch hard, but I say, 'Get in the ring with me and see if it hurts.'

I've knocked guys out in the 11th round before, late.

I really believe in my hands and my power to knock people out, and I will try to keep looking for that, for knockouts.

People say of every opponent, 'When are you going to knock him out?' But I'm not like Mike Tyson, who came flying out of his corner. I'm much more composed. A guy is supposed to be durable, but then I start finding my range, and, well, it comes together. Boom.

It's the heavyweight division, man: there's a bunch of big guys, so anything can happen when they hit you. But I have plans, and feel I get better every fight.

The heavyweight division is always very intriguing. These are the heavy hitters, you know? Every time when you do a mistake, it's the end of the fight. So you have to be careful all the time, and this is what makes this division so intriguing, so exciting for the fans.

The manner of my defeat against Mayweather and certainly Manny Pacquiao was a bitter pill to swallow.

You don't want the fight to stop on a cut or something like that. You want to finish the fight. You always have the idea that you have the chance to stay in a fight, because one blow can end it all.

One thing you understand quickly as a fighter is that you're not punching with eight or 10 oz. Gloves. We've got 4 oz. gloves. It only takes one good shot for a fight to be over.

My first world title fight, it surprisingly came so fast, but we knew it would come sooner or later.

This is what boxing always needs - two young, undefeated fighters willing to risk their '0.'

If Jermain Taylor was a bit fitter and he had a bit more steam in the tank towards the end, he might have survived and won on points, but he didn't have any energy left in the tank, because I sapped it out of him. I absolutely punched holes in him for the last three rounds.

It was like boxing found me.

Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a fight.