If you take your foot off the gas, there's always someone who wants your spot.
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.
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.
To play for Liverpool is the dream, the aim, and I can't see it changing to be fair.
That is how I have been brought up - to never give up, never take anything for granted.
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 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.
You've got to beat the best if you want to be the best.
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.
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.
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.
The odds are stacked against you becoming a footballer, so my family made sure I always had a backup plan.
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.
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.
The best chance we have of being successful is to not slip up and keep working hard to get three points on the board.
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.
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.
Football and chess can seem like sporting polar opposites, but there are so many similarities with the modern game.
The most important thing for me is education, and my family were really supportive in making sure I did the best I could.
