Top 55 Trent Alexander-Arnold Quotes

It is a thing of dreams to make your European debut for your boyhood club. Especially to make it with a goal was very special for me.

I think I’m always willing to learn and listen to the coaches and the manager and listen to the advice of the players in the team as well, so whenever I get the advice, I try to take it on board and just try to help myself get better.

My first poster was Michael Owen. I used to just love how he scored goals.

The best chance we have of being successful is to not slip up and keep working hard to get three points on the board.

That’s all that really matters to me – playing for the club.

I try not to pay too much respect to the players I am playing against.

You just want to be in every day with the other players; you want to play a game every day if you can.

It’s not important to me where I’m playing, just as long as the manager is happy and trusting me to go out on the pitch.

That’s the most proud I have been: Seeing my family at the World Cup and them being able to watch me play and making them proud of me.

I’m just a lad playing for Liverpool, trying to achieve his dream, so to see a lad with my name on his shirt – when I grew up having the names of other players on my shirt – it meant a lot.

Most opponents aren’t Ronaldo! You have to show him respect but not too much, because that’s when you get taken advantage of.

Not many people can say their family has seen them play at a World Cup.

There’s something special about the Champions Leagu,e and it’s always been a dream to play in that competition.

Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.

My heart was always set on Liverpool. I always loved the club.

In training, you can push yourself to the limit and test yourself against the best players in the world. That is when the pressure is really on, and they are the moments when you either improve, or you don’t.

As long as everyone does their part – the attackers score the goals, and the defenders keep the clean sheets – then you can’t go too wrong.

As a kid, I used to go and wait at the gates of Melwood or look through the cracks in the wall just see if I could see any of the people I was looking up to, who we all wanted to aspire to become, when we were in the Champions League, the likes of Gerrard, Carragher and Alonso.

No matter what the competition is, we’re not going to take it easy. We’re going to fight for it and try and win as much silverware as we can.

There is a big emphasis at Liverpool to have an academy that brings through young players.

The role I play is defending, so you’ve got to be doing that first and foremost. The better you can get it will help the team and help you progress, and I work on that every day.

You are brought up to realise that there will always be tough times in football and that nothing is ever straight forward.

It’s an honour every time I get the chance to go out on to the pitch, whether it be starting or as a sub, so I’m just happy to get on the pitch whenever I can.

There will be goals to achieve along the way, but until I captain Liverpool, I will not be satisfied.

My mum and dad pushed me to work hard in my earlier years in education.

No matter how good you are, your mentality has got to be right. A lot of young players, that’s where they go wrong, and that’s what I’ve always seen when I was growing up – players who are almost there but couldn’t quite get there because the mentality wasn’t right.

The dream is to captain Liverpool.

It’s just about keeping the momentum going, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s Champions League or Premier League or whatever trophy you’re going for, you’ve got to focus on the opponent that lies ahead.

You’ve got to beat the best if you want to be the best.

I was probably 13 or 14 when I realised I had a chance to make it. That’s when I realised that a bit of education had to be sacrificed in order to become a footballer.

Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.

I want to challenge myself and test myself against the best players in the world, and there are not many people better than the likes of Ronaldo.

I just try and play where the manager puts me as well as possible.

If you ever get in a position to influence and inspire the youth of the country, you should do it.

That is how I have been brought up – to never give up, never take anything for granted.

The most important thing for me is education, and my family were really supportive in making sure I did the best I could.

Obviously, it’s important for any team that wants to be really successful to try to have the best players that they possibly can in all positions, and I think Alisson is definitely one of the best in the world in his position.

Until I am playing every game all season for a couple of seasons, I am always going to be striving for better.

You make mistakes that you want to learn from, that you don’t want to happen again, and that’s what I try to do.

It’s wrong if you go into a game and think you’re starting week in and week out.

It’s always great to see someone’s life change for the better, and to be involved in something like that is really uplifting for me.

Every defeat hurts.

The family and friends and the people I surround myself allow me to keep my feet firmly on the floor and not get too big-headed.

I used to show my emotions too much. I had to get rid of that because the opposition would notice and start to target me. If I did something wrong, I would take it out on myself, but it is important in football to concentrate for 90 minutes.

It’s the high-pressure situations that bring out the real you.

When I was growing up, I was focused on football and school.

I always supported Liverpool. My whole family did!

To play for Liverpool is the dream, the aim, and I can’t see it changing to be fair.

That is probably the best thing to do: look back on the harder games you’ve had, the tougher games, learn what I didn’t do well and what I could have done better.

I used to love watching Match of the Day and the goals. I used to love seeing people scoring.

To beat City twice is no easy feat.

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.

It’s something you dream of. It’s very special to play in the Merseyside derby and, especially, win.

Keeping people on their toes is the best way to get the best out of people.

You have to go out there and focus on yourself and not who you are up against.