Quotes from Fernando Torres

If we win trophies, we have the chance to win individual awards because it comes with the team targets.

Chelsea gave me all the trophies I have as a football player. I saw my kids growing up in London.

Chelsea gave me what I was looking for when I left Liverpool trophies. I'll always see it as a success.

I want to thank my two English clubs: Liverpool for bringing me to the Premier League and Chelsea for the trophies I won.

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.

After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

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

I have good memories and bad memories of games against Chelsea. All the goals are good memories because all of them are special.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 am a big fan of the Gallagher brothers. At Liverpool, they came a few times; they are friends of Steven Gerrard. It was nice to meet them. When I was in Spain, I couldn't speak English, so I couldn't understand the lyrics. When I came to England, I started studying music and trying to understand what my favourite songs said.

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.

When I was a child, my dream was to play for Atletico.

In the dressing room, you can never lose that group concept.

I learnt that if we won, it didn't matter that I hadn't played. I had to keep working.

At Liverpool, winning is customary.

Liverpool had a lot of success under Rafa Benitez, and that is difficult for anyone to follow.

As a kid, I never once dreamt of playing for Liverpool.

I had the best three years of my career at Liverpool.

I just do not see myself playing for Madrid. They do not attract me, especially because of my past with Atletico.

If the manager thinks there is another player better than you, he is going to play, and this is the way. You have to try to improve and keep fighting and try to change the manager's mind.