A biography for Trent Alexander-Arnoldhasn’t been written yet.
“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 just try and play where the manager puts me as well as possible.”
“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.”
“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 used to love watching Match of the Day and the goals. I used to love seeing people scoring.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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'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.”
“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 dream is to captain Liverpool.”
“That is how I have been brought up - to never give up, never take anything for granted.”
“It's wrong if you go into a game and think you're starting week in and week out.”
“If you take your foot off the gas, there's always someone who wants your spot.”
“I try not to pay too much respect to the players I am playing against.”
“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.”