Top 50 Luis Suarez Quotes

I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.

Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.

I think the people who really know who Luis is are the people who are by my side, who have always been by my side.

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.

My record shows that I’m not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.

I need to be playing in the Champions League.

My wife says that if people reach conclusions as to what I am like based on what they see from me on the pitch they would say I am a guy who is always annoyed, always in a bad mood, they’d say what must it be like to live with me. There are two of me, two different people.

It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.

Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.

Nobody in England knows the real Luis Suarez.

I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.

Put ‘Luis Suarez’ into an Internet search engine, and up comes the word ‘racist.’ It’s a stain that is there for ever. And it is one that I feel I do not deserve.

A forward always has to help the team, either with assists or goals.

Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don’t talk, if I don’t moan.

I don’t read the papers or watch TV.

I always want more. I always want my team to perform to their best.

I’m not going to another club to hurt Liverpool.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn’t have much money at home.

It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League.

I was asked a question: ‘Would I want to play for Madrid?’ It’s like anyone asked if they want to change jobs and move to a bigger company.

I am obviously a striker who likes to score a lot of goals and have done that in every team I have been with.

I’m my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

I much prefer being told off by Brendan Rodgers than by my wife. Brendan is more careful than my wife with what he says.

I never imagined playing in El Clasico. I used to watch the games and look at photos, and I used to say how incredible to play in it was.

I want to do things right. I really, really do.

I’m used to being the main goal scorer, but I also always like to help.

When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.

When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfriend Sofia, who is now my wife, I think it all changed. She was very important for me, because she steered me back on to the path I wanted to be on.

Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.

Barcelona are always a candidate to win the Champions League.

I’ve been obsessed by football since I was young.

When I say, ‘I’m sorry,’ it’s because I regret something.

I understand why biting is seen so badly.

At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

Away from the pitch, I’m a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that’s it.

I have to put my career first.

My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.

People ask, ‘How can you let a defeat hurt you so much?’ But it comes back to the effort you have put into your career as a youngster.

Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone’s leg off and still not be booked.

The only thing I want is the respect of the fans of Liverpool and the fans of the national team of Uruguay.

I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don’t think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it’s awful to hear and read what is said of you.

When you feel you’ve done something wrong, you should apologise for it.

I have been hit from all sides, and I’m only human. They have ended up talking about the way I look, and it hurts. I have a family, and they suffer, too. It has gone over the limit, and I am tired of it. I have a wife and child, too, and I am not prepared to go on putting up with it English journalists.

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

I think Liverpool have a long history with many great players. I hope one day to be up there with those great players. I’ll try my best to write some history here.

‘Negro’ can refer to anyone with dark hair as well as dark skin, and I’ve been used to the word being used in Spanish in this way all my life.

Of course I don’t like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.

If you don’t speak Spanish, then don’t accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

I normally try to be tranquil on the pitch.

It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked.