Messi is the best. I have not seen or will ever see a player like Lionel Messi. Fernando Torres More Quotes by Fernando Torres More Quotes From Fernando Torres If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose. Fernando Torres Purpose without virtue is vanity. Fernando Torres vanityvirtuepurpose I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not. Fernando Torres live-in-the-presentdreammight 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. Fernando Torres sad-personlossbrain 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. Fernando Torres teamfootballsports 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. Fernando Torres humilityhumblebelieve I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics. Fernando Torres statisticsfightingyears 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. Fernando Torres teamimportantself 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. Fernando Torres oppositeswritingpeople 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. Fernando Torres gameswantpeople 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. Fernando Torres places-to-gofundamentalsway 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. Fernando Torres playerwantneeds I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind. Fernando Torres statesmothermind If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate. Fernando Torres liverpoolscorecelebrate 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. Fernando Torres teamrealkids 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. Fernando Torres love-youfunkids When I get to connect with people, I'm not in my head anymore and I like that, that's nice. Fernando Torres nicepeople At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart. Fernando Torres teamkingsfall 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. Fernando Torres importantgamestrying 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. Fernando Torres speaking-upmovingthinking
