Quotes from Fernando Torres

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.

For me, Real Madrid are just like any other club, like Barcelona, Milan, Bayern Munich, or Inter. Just another big club.

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

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

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 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.

My only path has always been to work hard.

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

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.

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.

Domestic titles are very important, but to win the Champions League, you are saying, 'We are the best team in Europe.'

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

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.

You have to prove yourself every day. You have to live for today.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

When young players become one of the best in the world, everyone wants to sign them.