Trent Alexander-Arnold Quotes

The most important thing when I joined Ajax was to combine it with school.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.

Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.

I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

I got good grades. I played sports.

I understood I had to be good at school so I could play football in my free time. Usually, by the time I came home from school, I already had all my things ready for the next day, so I could put my bag on the side and go straight out to play football with my friends!

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

My father pushed me to be a footballer. At every opportunity, he took me with him to play football. He came with me to matches.

My ambition is to win some trophies. That's why I am playing football.

I enjoyed every minute of being at school. I was doing my work but still playing football.

The advice I would give to young players is always give St Mirren an opportunity.

What fun would it be if we were perfect in everything that we did? Football is not about that.

I knew I was going to be a football player; I just didn't know how. It was the only thing I was doing, the only thing that I knew. Always training, training, training, training.

I played football ever since I was a little boy. Coming from a family of six boys, I guess we learned the game of football from a very young age.

We want to win. We want to win big football matches.

We are all football players and we are here to do our best. You want to work hard in training and we will see what happens at a weekend.

I didn't make the most of school, but boxing has given me discipline.

I must continue to work hard to help my teammates. Competition always exists in football.

There are always more trophies to win in football.

Everyone wants to finish a project they start, but in the world of football, you cannot guarantee anything.

I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.

I had sacrificed my entire life to play football.