Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Luis Suarez
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Uruguayan athlete Luis Suarez.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
I'm not going to another club to hurt Liverpool.
Away from the pitch, I'm a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that's it.
I need to be playing in the Champions League.
I'm used to being the main goal scorer, but I also always like to help.
Coaches have told me I can help the team much more if I don't talk, if I don't moan.
Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.
When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.
I've scored many goals that I've liked, but I think the best memory I have is the one against Korea in the 2010 World Cup.
It's important for the team not to be relying on one player.
I think Liverpool have a long history with many great players. I hope one day to be up there with those great players. I'll try my best to write some history here.
My record shows that I'm not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.
Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those.
The only thing I want is the respect of the fans of Liverpool and the fans of the national team of Uruguay.
People ask, 'How can you let a defeat hurt you so much?' But it comes back to the effort you have put into your career as a youngster.
I never imagined playing in El Clasico. I used to watch the games and look at photos, and I used to say how incredible to play in it was.
I wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup.
I still sleep soundly every night. I'm not worried about everything people say.
I think all the bad things I have been through are in the past. I believe I am on the right path now, dealing with the people who can help me, the right kind of people.
I always want more. I always want my team to perform to their best.
Liverpool will always be special for me: my daughter was born here.
I understand why biting is seen so badly.
When I was a kid, I got sent off for head-butting a referee: I ran 50m to argue a decision, I was shown a red card, and I head-butted him. I'm really not proud of that.
Every player would love to get to the absolute top, and Real Madrid is it.
My wife says that if people reach conclusions as to what I am like based on what they see from me on the pitch they would say I am a guy who is always annoyed, always in a bad mood, they'd say what must it be like to live with me. There are two of me, two different people.
Put 'Luis Suarez' into an Internet search engine, and up comes the word 'racist.' It's a stain that is there for ever. And it is one that I feel I do not deserve.
On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.
Everyone has different ways of defending themselves.
Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.
I'm an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I'm strong with others.
After my 10-match ban in 2013 for biting Branislav Ivanovic, I had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration.
There are only three million people in Uruguay, but there is such hunger for glory: you'll do anything to make it; you have that extra desire to run, to suffer. I can't explain our success, but I think that's a reason.
Nobody in England knows the real Luis Suarez.
I don't read the papers or watch TV.
Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.
I will give my soul every game.
My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.
I was asked a question: 'Would I want to play for Madrid?' It's like anyone asked if they want to change jobs and move to a bigger company.
When I was a kid, I had to fight for everything.
When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.
It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.
If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25.
Sometimes English football takes pride in having the lowest yellow-card count in Europe, but of course it will have if you can take someone's leg off and still not be booked.
I normally try to be tranquil on the pitch.
There are people who criticise me, and that's normal because of the way I am on the pitch. I get angry, I get tense.
At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.
When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfriend Sofia, who is now my wife, I think it all changed. She was very important for me, because she steered me back on to the path I wanted to be on.
If you win while scoring goals, then you leave happy, but the most important thing is always the team. I do not think just of me.
I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.
I much prefer being told off by Brendan Rodgers than by my wife. Brendan is more careful than my wife with what he says.
Of course I don't like the fact that my wife goes to the supermarket and there are photographers. But I realise that the press attention is the same wherever you go.
Every player feels differently about playing football. We are all different people. I am the type who wants to win all the time. I hate to lose.
I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.
I think the people who really know who Luis is are the people who are by my side, who have always been by my side.
It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League.
Barcelona are always a candidate to win the Champions League.
I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.
I have to put my career first.
I've been obsessed by football since I was young.
On the pitch, I argue, I shout, I talk rubbish and generally do anything I can to get ahead.
It's especially important for my little girl to see her papa at work.
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