Top 35 Fernando Torres Quotes

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks – or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.

Football is not a sport populated by honest people. You can’t tell the truth or be up front with people. It’s a business, and no one is friends.

I am a professional, and I always fulfil my deals.

I’m a quiet guy, but on the pitch, it’s different. You have to do everything you can to win and help your teammates.

I had team-mates who didn’t care if the team won or lost because they were not playing. I never wanted to be like that.

Chelsea gave me what I was looking for when I left Liverpool trophies. I’ll always see it as a success.

A player wants to be remembered for what he has won, for the medals, for what he has given his club.

I didn’t realise how my life was changing. When I was 17, 18, 20, I didn’t realise how big football was and everything around football. How many people live for football and love football. I was a professional, but I was a supporter.

The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.

It was very hard to go through life as a small boy supporting Atletico.

Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

I just do not see myself playing for Madrid. They do not attract me, especially because of my past with Atletico.

The Premier League is tough because, as soon as you lose a couple of games, you’re out of the race for the league.

I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.

If we win the Champions League, everyone is a better, more recognised player, but if you win an individual award and nothing with your team, it means nothing.

It’s not easy to come somewhere new and have to find your place. You might feel someone doesn’t like you, or you might need to find new friends. It’s not easy, and I don’t like this kind of thing. It’s not easy, so you want to protect the players who are alone.

Steven Gerrard is the best player I have played with throughout my career; therefore, my ideal player would be very like him.

Winning the European Championship was a great thing for me, and I understood what it was to win a major trophy and what I had been missing.

My father worked every day; my brother and sister had to travel many hours to study, so Atletico were for people like us.

Atleti fans always demand your all on the field, and I guarantee that I will give them that and more.

Big clubs in Europe always go through difficult spells where it appears as though there is no light at the end of the tunnel. But because they are big clubs, they always come back, and they do so with a vengeance.

Real Madrid is like Manchester United or Liverpool or Bayern Munich. There is so much history, and you need to play and win against that history. It’s difficult to play against them because you fight against everything – the history, the players – but because of that, the motivation is always so high.

The things you cannot change you can’t waste your time on.

After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

In your life, you go through a difficult situation or a very good situation, and you have different moods, but you learn things from your experiences.

I had the best three years of my career at Liverpool.

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don’t remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

I learnt that if we won, it didn’t matter that I hadn’t played. I had to keep working.

You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.

At Liverpool, winning is customary.

My only path has always been to work hard.

Liverpool is a massive club in reputation, but as soon as I came here, it felt like Atletico to me. It is a working city, an honest city. The people work all week, and on Saturday they want to go to Anfield and watch the best team in the world.

I have good memories and bad memories of games against Chelsea. All the goals are good memories because all of them are special.

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.