Quotes from Paulie Malignaggi

I believe it's going to be easier to stop Ricky Hatton than it will be to stop Lovemore N'dou.

I do best when guys come at me. Stylistically, the Ricky Hatton fight is the best fight for me.

I would love to fight Ricky Hatton.

I think I should I have beaten Ricky Hatton. I never thought he was so great, I really think I have the style to beat him. I never thought he was that good, you know.

I'm all about trying to accomplish more in my life as best I can, be it in the ring or outside the ring.

I can't make it doing anything else, the amount of money. Obviously, anybody can go to work and make money, but the paycheck I make boxing, I'm not going to make anywhere else.

I don't really have the desire, as far as love of the game. It's more about the paycheck I can make.

If I know my showboating bothers you, I'll keep doing it. If playing with your mind is part of the arsenal, and I know it works, then I'm going to continue doing it.

They put everything that's wrong with boxing in one room, did everything that's wrong with boxing in that room, and gave birth to Adrien Broner.

I was an angry kid, and boxing kept me out of trouble.

I try to keep it sweet, but trash-talking is fun, and people want to see if a brash kid like me can live up to his patter.

I don't want to lose to an average champion. I want to lose to a great champion.

You've got to be really hurt to stop a fight, especially to stop a championship fight.

Everyone knows I love my fans. I wouldn't change them for the world. They have been by my side and haven't left me even when times have been tough. I try to chat with all my fans on Twitter.

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.

I want to win at everything I'm doing. It doesn't matter what it is. I want to beat the person that I'm competing against.

I'm a very competitive person.

I'm a competitor in anything I do, especially boxing.

Preparation in Miami is always good because of the weather.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

At training camp, you brainwash yourself into thinking every,day is the same, no weekends or holidays. It's all the same - a work day. You develop a mental state to just work hard and get ready for the fight.

My mother really struggled when we were young. She was on food stamps and welfare. Looking back, I know we didn't have a lot, but I never felt I was at a loss for anything.

I didn't mentally prepare as well for Ngoudjo as I should have. I was a little lax in the fight.

You can be taught so much, but the sense of anticipation cannot be taught.