Luis Suarez Quotes

Barcelona have a unique approach to the game based on specific types of footballers playing together as one.

Even I'm a bit surprised with how easily I've adapted to European football.

When I signed for Barca, I knew their playing style was suited to my game.

I played as a 10 and, in Sweden, they let me take as many touches as I could. All of a sudden, I come to Arsenal and I have to play one and two touches - it was a little bit alien to me.

Spain started to generate a very good playing style from Pep Guardiola's arrival at Barcelona.

My style suits Barcelona's style of play.

I don't think City play a Brazilian style - it is more Spanish the way we play here.

My style of play has always been 'Guardiola style,' so I've not had too many problems. At the same time, he helps you to evolve and to change little things, because it's obviously not exactly the same style of play as at Bilbao.

I try to play in one way all my career and here, with high pressing, but it is different in England. Many times the ball is more in the air than the grass, and I have to adapt.

I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible. Elusive is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then - blink - he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball.

When you play a team with as much attacking power as Barcelona and you restrict them to one shot on target in the second leg, you are doing something right. Have the best football team gone through? Yes. Have the best organised team gone through? No.

I do want to play the short ball and I do want to play the long ball. I think long and short balls is what football is all about.

When I moved to Mississippi, I was playing in high school, and there wasn't a lot of talent around me. I figured out that I wasn't going to be able to get to the bucket a lot anymore.

It's a different style the way the German players play. I think the English players like to play a lot of one and two touch and we can find each other in the pockets.

I've grown up playing in central midfield more, and I think my natural game is about coming inside from wide.

Cruyff's idea was, quite literally, to play football - nothing more, nothing less. His idea of how football should be played was based not on controlling the opponent, but on the ball and the game.

Barcelona are special in the way they play. They're a machine.

I like to create chances, to shoot when I play farther forward, but I also like playing deeper, as you have more time on the ball.

The way you adapt and play against different teams and different styles is going to be important.

There are teams in England who play the football I like, keeping the ball on the ground, playing a quick game with one-twos, pressing their opponents high up the pitch. If one of these clubs were interested in me, I'd adapt to them well, and they could adapt to my way of playing, which isn't so common.

I have evolved a lot as a player working with Klopp, who is a very tactical coach.

I received a lot of criticism maybe because in England they are not accustomed to seeing a playmaker with my skills. Because I'm not a physical player but I think more about playing the ball.

I couldn't sign for Barca, as I can't play football the way Xavi wants.

Everyone knows I am fast, so I have to change the way I play. I always know I have to change the way I score. Every game is different.

There is nobody called Test bowler, one day bowler or T20 bowler. It just how you adapt and make a difference to your own game.