Profession: Football Player
Year Of Birth: January 24th 1987
Current Team: FC Barcelona
Nationality: Uruguayan
Position: Forward
- “When I say, ‘I’m sorry,’ it’s because I regret something.” – Luis Suarez
- “Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.” – Luis Suarez
- “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.” – Luis Suarez
- “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.” – Luis Suarez
- “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.” – Luis Suarez
- “I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don’t keep it all bottled up inside; don’t take it all on alone.” – Luis Suarez
- “I still sleep soundly every night. I’m not worried about everything people say.” – Luis Suarez
- “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.” – Luis Suarez
- “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.” – Luis Suarez
- “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.” – Luis Suarez
- “I know what my strengths are and what theirs are and what the three of us do is play for the good of the team.” – Luis Suarez
- “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.” – Luis Suarez
- “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.” – Luis Suarez
- “I’m an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I’m strong with others.” – Luis Suarez
- “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. Luis Suarez.” – Luis Suarez
- “Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.” – Luis Suarez
- “That’s the mentality – don’t just play it, win it.” – Luis Suarez
- “I worry when I can’t help the team with everything I have to offer.” – Luis Suarez
- “At first I didn’t think I was going to fit into Barcelona’s way of playing. There was a lot of tiki-taka and I was thinking that without a lot of space to play in, I’d find it more difficult. I worried about that.” – Luis Suarez
- “I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.” – Luis Suarez
- “You just can’t believe how quickly things happen in football and the way life turns. I went from being the bad guy, the worst player who gets all the criticism, to being the player who makes the difference and scores the important goals.” – Luis Suarez
- “I’d have to say I enjoy myself a lot more, really. I don’t feel so much responsibility as I did in other teams. It felt sometimes at Ajax and Liverpool that it had to be me. Now, every time I go out on to the pitch, I enjoy myself and laugh. I have gone through too many difficult times in my career and I don’t want to keep thinking about them.” – Luis Suarez
- “I’ve got a magnificent relationship with Leo (Messi) and Ney (Neymar). They drive the team, with Andres Iniesta as well – what a player. You know if you have a good relationship with them off the pitch it will be that way on the pitch too. They took it as a sign that I had come to help them, not to compete with them.” – Luis Suarez
- “I’m paying for a mistake I made” – Luis Suarez
- “In Latin America the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team.” – Luis Suarez
- “Gabriel Batistuta. He was a spectacular No 9 – great at finding space, shooting from outside the box, good in the air. He was always a reference for me and I used to watch the way he played.” – Luis Suarez
- “I’m not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it’s only going to affect results.” – Luis Suarez
- “Everything you see comes from inside. People don’t see it but inside the dressing room we laugh and joke a lot so it’s not just for the cameras. It’s the way things are off the pitch too. We are happy for each other, it is all natural.” – Luis Suarez
- “There is always a chance to get even and I’m proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That’s what makes me most content.” – Luis Suarez
- “My desire at Liverpool was to help get the club playing in the elite because they had been five years without it. We used to talk about it in the dressing room. If Liverpool are not in the Champions League, it is difficult to get the best players to come to the club.” – Luis Suarez
