Top 77 Quotes & Sayings by Trent Alexander-Arnold

Every defeat hurts.

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.

I started playing football with my mates and my brothers, in the playground or the park or the front garden. It was just about enjoying it, having a good time playing. I wanted to play all the time.

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.

In a knockout tournament, it is not really about your own performance - it is about the team.

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

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

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

I think the moment you get comfortable is the moment that people start gaining on you and start taking that position from you.

To be a Premier League player is something that not everyone can say; even some of the best players in the world can't say that!

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.

I feel I have been very lucky. When you are growing up, you have dreams of being a footballer, perhaps even playing for the club you support, and I am living that dream.

It's always good to get compliments from your idol.

You have a job to do, and whoever I am up against I will try to come out on top like I always try.

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

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

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.

The odds are stacked against you becoming a footballer, so my family made sure I always had a backup plan.

That's all that really matters to me - playing for the club.

Liverpool are special.

I was about six, and Liverpool had a community summer camp. They sent a few invites to my school and my age group, to my class specifically, and they were like, 'Who wants to go?' So every lad in the class put their hands up, as you'd imagine, so the only fair way was to pick names out of a hat, and luckily, my name was picked out.

Probably the best thing for me to hear from my family is telling me that they are proud. To be able to see them smile is a great thing.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I am happy to get the chance to play whenever I get the chance, and it is down to the manager's trust and the trust he has shown in 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.

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

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.

With Ronaldo being one of the greats, probably one of the best players ever, it's going to be an honour to hopefully play against him.

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

I always supported Liverpool. My whole family did!

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

The dream is to captain Liverpool.

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

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.

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.

There are always opportunities at Liverpool.

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

If you take your foot off the gas, there's always someone who wants your spot.

As long as possible, I want to have that relationship with Liverpool, to be a Liverpool player. To say I have done that for the whole of my career is something I have dreamed of being able to say.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The way myself and my brothers have been brought up is that you don't give to receive, you give to give, and that is the way life is.

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

I had a lot of idols like Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, and Xabi Alonso - all of them. I really looked up to them.