Explore Quotes by Fernando Torres

No one has given me anything for free.

I was not a Liverpool fan or a Chelsea fan in Madrid. I was an Atletico fan. I still am. Maybe they're the only badge I will kiss.

You always have to aspire to everything; winning titles is what I've been missing. And I will give my life and everything I have in order to achieve it.

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

When you play, you do not ask yourself how it feels to be on the bench. You have to live it to understand how difficult it is to be there without being there. To enter a match knowing you do not have the confidence of the coach. To play when you simply don't have the habit of playing.

I was always fighting with everyone when I was a kid. I was playing with people two or three years older than me, and I had to survive. So I love the physical game, the contact. And I don't know why, but I think football is like this. It is not just touching the ball and stringing together 50 pretty passes consecutively.

I like to play. It doesn't matter if it's just me up front on my own or alongside another striker. I always want to play in the first XI.

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.

Messi is the best. I have not seen or will ever see a player like Lionel Messi.

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.

I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

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.

When I was a boy, I was really thin, small, long-haired. I always looked young. People thought, 'He can't play football.' I used that to my advantage.

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

I can be very shy. I really like to stay at home with my people because I'm really shy. My wife is as well; we're both really shy.

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.

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 left in Liverpool a lot of friends. I have a very good relationship with all of them.

You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says, 'I won more money.'