Liverpool was a special city that took to me; I will always remember how special that place was. I obviously don't miss the rain.
— Fernando Torres
Liverpool had a lot of success under Rafa Benitez, and that is difficult for anyone to follow.
In the dressing room, you can never lose that group concept.
Chelsea gave me all the trophies I have as a football player. I saw my kids growing up in London.
I had the best three years of my career at Liverpool.
I have good memories and bad memories of games against Chelsea. All the goals are good memories because all of them are special.
Each player has one place in the world where he is happy, and as a result, he plays well. My place is Anfield. Every game I can play there, I feel good.
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.
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.
My only path has always been to work hard.
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.
For me, Real Madrid are just like any other club, like Barcelona, Milan, Bayern Munich, or Inter. Just another big club.
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.
Steven Gerrard is the best player I have played with throughout my career; therefore, my ideal player would be very like him.
Chelsea gave me what I was looking for when I left Liverpool trophies. I'll always see it as a success.
I am a professional, and I always fulfil my deals.
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.
Liverpool gave me a second home. I was 24, I left my team, my town, and I went there. My memories there are just amazing. I have no words to thank them enough, and that's why I will always be a fan.
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.
As a kid, I never once dreamt of playing for Liverpool.
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.
Domestic titles are very important, but to win the Champions League, you are saying, 'We are the best team in Europe.'
I want to thank my two English clubs: Liverpool for bringing me to the Premier League and Chelsea for the trophies I won.
When I was a child, my dream was to play for 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 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.'
Ronaldo is different from Messi. He is very impressive down the wings.
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.
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.
If we win trophies, we have the chance to win individual awards because it comes with the team targets.
At Liverpool, winning is customary.
I learnt that if we won, it didn't matter that I hadn't played. I had to keep working.
The MLS is a fantastic competition, and it is growing all the time.
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.
When I played against Chelsea, there was always a big motivation because it was a special game; it was always one of the biggest games of the season. This is one of the reasons why I wanted to join Chelsea: because I want to be part of this kind of team.
I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.
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.
I don't want to imagine the time when I have to stop playing.
Atleti fans always demand your all on the field, and I guarantee that I will give them that and more.
English football has an enormous following across the world, not just because of the players but because of its history, its tradition, the excitement, the capacity crowds.
Nobody has ever gifted me anything.
My father worked every day; my brother and sister had to travel many hours to study, so Atletico were for people like us.
A player wants to be remembered for what he has won, for the medals, for what he has given his club.
I just do not see myself playing for Madrid. They do not attract me, especially because of my past with Atletico.
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 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.
