Ricky Hatton

“I was always very depressed, even when I was a youngster.”

“We are very proud of our roots in Manchester. We like to back our own.”

“To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.”

“I feel I let everyone British sport, British boxing, my community, my home town of Manchester, my family my kids, I feel I've let everyone down with the troubles I've been in.”

“I can still remember the time when some City fans thought it would be a good idea if I bought the club. I don't know how much money they thought I had - but I certainly don't think we'd be enjoying the success that we are under Sheikh Mansour.”

“Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.”

“I'm not going to say I was Britain's greatest ever world champion. I think Joe Calzaghe was the best - although I think I fought a lot better fighters.”

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

“I had an exciting style, I was very aggressive, a body puncher, and I attacked all the time.”

“It makes me very, very happy to get someone a world title shot, which I've done with a few fighters, or a European title shot or a British title, and I see them lift that belt above their waist and they come to me and say 'Thanks Ricky. I've just paid my mortgage off with that.' That's what its all about.”

“I want to be recognised as a great fighter; and not just in England.”

“Fame has never been high on my agenda.”

“Boxers don't tend to come from Cambridge or Oxford. Sometimes the things we say don't come out well. We are not known for our vocabulary.”

“It doesn't matter how many people say 'don't be hard on yourself,' I feel like I have to redeem myself to my fans, my family and the whole of British sport.”

“You write an autobiography because you want to tell people how you felt about a certain matter at that time.”

“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.”

“I like to think I know my boxing.”

“Jose Mourinho is the Floyd Mayweather Jr of football management. You either love him or hate him.”

“Having been a world champion, I would love to go on and train a world champion too.”

“Everyone wants to be a world champion, but when you take that first punch it will tell you if you really want to be in this sport or not. For me, there was no doubt.”