Fernando Torres Quotes:

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

Topics: Football, Drug, Overdose

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics,

Topics: Fighting, Years, Statistics

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

Topics: Believe, Humble, Humility

If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate.

Topics: Celebrate, Score

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

Topics: Dream, Might, Live In The Present

At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.

Topics: Kings, Team, Fall

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.

Topics: Football, Games, Play

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

Topics: Fans, Joining, Want

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Vanity, Purpose, Virtue

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Sports, Football, Team, Sports Team

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.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Team, Self, Important, Team Mate

Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.

Topics: Soccer, Football, Holiday, Greenland

My head is in Liverpool and on helping save our season. I am professional and I always fulfil my deals. I haven't considered leaving, although in football that depends on the club.

Topics: Football, Leaving, Clubs

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.

Topics: Games, Important, Trying, New Position

I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss.

source: - Source: thequietus.com

Topics: Loss, Brain, Sad Person

When you have a bad result, you want the next game to come as quickly as possible because a good result will make people forget about the bad result.

source: - Source: conlaroja.wordpress.com

Topics: Games, People, Want

The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though, is the opposite. It's an extroverted process. It pushes me to connect with people, and so it pulls me out of my head and just pulls me out of myself.

source: - Source: thequietus.com

Topics: Writing, Opposites, People

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.

source: - "Fernando Torres admits he did not care if Chelsea won or lost" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2012.

Topics: Fundamentals, Places To Go, Way, Remember Me

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

Topics: Mother, Mind, States, Annoyance

I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Real, Team, Kids, Champions League

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.

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Player, Needs, Want

When I get to connect with people, I'm not in my head anymore and I like that, that's nice.

source: - Source: thequietus.com

Topics: Nice, People

When you become an adult you just make that transition and you're right... it's fun and exciting to be an adult and exciting to have independence, but once you're out from under the cover of your family's protection and love, you sort of have to take a step back and come to terms with the fact that you won't really ever have that again in the same way. You'll never be a kid again.

source: - Source: thequietus.com

Topics: Fun, Love You, Kids

The songs can be dark, but the adrenaline doesn't really change, regardless of what it is I'm singing, I still have the adrenaline, it's still a high.

source: - Source: thequietus.com

Topics: Song, Dark, Singing

I guess just personally I've become a bolder person in my day-to-day. I think a lot of it came from moving to Brooklyn. I just sort of became an adult and started speaking up for myself and not apologising for myself.

source: - Source: thequietus.com

Topics: Moving, Thinking, Speaking Up, Apologising

My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city, he had no choice.

source: - "Fernando Torres admits he did not care if Chelsea won or lost" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2012.

Topics: Football, Son, Cities, Liverpool Fans

The live show allows me to transcend myself, because it's not about me anymore. The writing process is very much about me but then the live show is not. They feel really different.

source: - Source: thequietus.com

Topics: Writing, Different, Process, Writing Process

The Champions League is a big ambition and all the footballers want to play in it. It is a very important competition.

source: - "Fernando Torres targets debut goal against Liverpool". www.independent.co.uk. February 1, 2011.

Topics: Ambition, Champions League, Play

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.

source: - "Fernando Torres: Full transcript of the £50m striker's first interview since joining Chelsea". Chelsea TV Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 1, 2011.

Topics: Madrid