If you take your foot off the gas, there's always someone who wants your spot.
Trent Alexander-Arnold
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 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 dream is to captain Liverpool.
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.
You have to go out there and focus on yourself and not who you are up against.
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.
The most important thing for me is education, and my family were really supportive in making sure I did the best I could.
To play for Liverpool is the dream, the aim, and I can't see it changing to be fair.
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.
It's the high-pressure situations that bring out the real you.
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.
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the life of a footballer, and I guess that is true across most sports now.
You've got to beat the best if you want to be the best.
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.
Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.
That is how I have been brought up - to never give up, never take anything for granted.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The best chance we have of being successful is to not slip up and keep working hard to get three points on the board.
The odds are stacked against you becoming a footballer, so my family made sure I always had a backup plan.
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 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.
In a knockout tournament, it is not really about your own performance - it is about the team.
There's something special about the Champions Leagu,e and it's always been a dream to play in that competition.
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 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.
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.
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 something you dream of. It's very special to play in the Merseyside derby and, especially, win.
Liverpool are special.
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.
Every defeat hurts.
I always supported Liverpool. My whole family did!
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.
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!
I try not to pay too much respect to the players I am playing against.
To beat City twice is no easy feat.
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.
Not many people can say their family has seen them play at a World Cup.
Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.
I just try and play where the manager puts me as well as possible.
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 all that really matters to me - playing for the club.
I think the moment you get comfortable is the moment that people start gaining on you and start taking that position from you.
Most opponents aren't Ronaldo! You have to show him respect but not too much, because that's when you get taken advantage of.
You have a job to do, and whoever I am up against I will try to come out on top like I always try.
