I have always wanted to play against those types of players such as Ronaldo and Neymar.
— Trent Alexander-Arnold
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.
I didn't really have a position when I was younger; I just used to play where the manager told me to play.
You just want to be in every day with the other players; you want to play a game every day if you can.
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.
It's the high-pressure situations that bring out the real you.
The most important thing for me is education, and my family were really supportive in making sure I did the best I could.
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.
You are brought up to realise that there will always be tough times in football and that nothing is ever straight forward.
If you ever get in a position to influence and inspire the youth of the country, you should do it.
It's always good to get compliments from your idol.
Until I am playing every game all season for a couple of seasons, I am always going to be striving for better.
The dream is to captain Liverpool.
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.
Most opponents aren't Ronaldo! You have to show him respect but not too much, because that's when you get taken advantage of.
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.
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.
Keeping people on their toes is the best way to get the best out of people.
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.
There is a big emphasis at Liverpool to have an academy that brings through young players.
I always loved watching the Champions League, growing up.
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.
When I was growing up, I was focused on football and school.
My mum and dad always knew that my dream was to be a footballer, but they also warned me that it doesn't always work out.
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.
The odds are stacked against you becoming a footballer, so my family made sure I always had a backup plan.
There are always opportunities at Liverpool.
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.
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.
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.
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 think the moment you get comfortable is the moment that people start gaining on you and start taking that position from you.
I just try and play where the manager puts me as well as possible.
Not many people can say their family has seen them play at a World Cup.
It's wrong if you go into a game and think you're starting week in and week out.
Once I reached about 14 or 15, I started to steady myself and get into a midfield role and carried that on until I was 17. Then I dropped into right-back, and I have played there ever since.
My heart was always set on Liverpool. I always loved the club.
My first poster was Michael Owen. I used to just love how he scored goals.
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.
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.
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.
That is how I have been brought up - to never give up, never take anything for granted.
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 used to love watching Match of the Day and the goals. I used to love seeing people scoring.
There will be goals to achieve along the way, but until I captain Liverpool, I will not be satisfied.
Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.
You have a job to do, and whoever I am up against I will try to come out on top like I always try.
That's all that really matters to me - playing for the club.
Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.
