Quotes from Trent Alexander-Arnold

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.