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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't read the papers or watch TV. "

" 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. "

" Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem. "

" I am obviously a striker who likes to score a lot of goals and have done that in every team I have been with. "

" I normally try to be tranquil on the pitch. "

" It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay. "

" I'm used to being the main goal scorer, but I also always like to help. "

" 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 wanted my children to be able to see me play at the World Cup. "

" When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it. "

" It is always a bit hypocritical when a defender who spends the whole game kicking you complains of being kicked. "

" I understand why biting is seen so badly. "

" 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. "

" I still sleep soundly every night. I'm not worried about everything people say. "

" I have a very strange way of playing football. "

" 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. "

" I'm an emotional person, and I externalise my feelings a lot with some things, but I'm strong with others. "

" If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times. "

" It's important for the team not to be relying on one player. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25. "

" I have been hit from all sides, and I'm only human. They have ended up talking about the way I look, and it hurts. I have a family, and they suffer, too. It has gone over the limit, and I am tired of it. I have a wife and child, too, and I am not prepared to go on putting up with it English journalists. "

" On the pitch, I argue, I shout, I talk rubbish and generally do anything I can to get ahead. "

" 'Negro' can refer to anyone with dark hair as well as dark skin, and I've been used to the word being used in Spanish in this way all my life. "

" I have to put my career first. "

" It disturbs me that Liverpool are not in the Champions League and fighting for the Premier League. "