Ricky Hatton Quotes

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Ricky Hatton

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 6, 1978

Sometimes you have to hit rock bottom to think: 'Blimey, Ricky, get a grip.'

Ricky Hatton

Depression is a very serious thing. People don't realise how deadly it can be.

Ricky Hatton

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

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I always loved training to get fit, make all those sacrifices that you do, but it just wasn't there after Pacquiao.

Ricky Hatton

No. 1 career highlight? It would have to be getting the MBE from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace.

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The high of victory in the ring was bigger than the biggest party. You'd get in the ring and hear thousands of fans chanting your name and I'd be giving it all back for them.

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If boxing had a professional boxing association or something like that, I think it would be a better place.

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It's an individual sport so you get in the ring on your own and then when you retire you tend to spend the rest of your life on your own.

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He's a very, very clever fighter, Manny, but you'd have to say the cleverest fighter in boxing is Mayweather. He adapts his style against whatever opponent he faces.

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It got to a point where I didn't care if I lived or I died.

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Everyone knows my story and lots of people have been disappointed in my deterioration as a man. But they can see I'm trying to get better.

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Boxing has been very, very good to me.

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Life has kicked me hard, hasn't it? Some of it's my fault, some of it's not my fault.

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I don't want to be fighting at four or six-round levels - I want to fight for world titles.

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People say nice things about me but they don't know what's been going on between my ears.

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Growing up in a pub taught me a lot about life.

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Before I turned professional I used to do carpet fitting for my dad. I wasn't much good, it's a miracle I've still got 10 fingers.

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I'm known for my strength and it helped that from a young age I was carrying around crates of beer or carpets and heavy rolls of underlay.

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We think, 'I'm Ricky Hatton or I'm Tyson Fury, I can take on the world.' You can take on the world in the ring but this problem called depression, you can't take it on.

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We're out of our comfort zones with depression. I certainly was and whenever I have bad days now I speak to someone to get it off my chest.

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