Top 60 Alex Morgan Quotes

I’m a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that’s because I didn’t do that. If I’d focused more on that when I was a kid, it would’ve been so helpful. It took me, like, halfway through college to feel comfortable with the ball.

I feel like when there’s more on the line and there’s more risks, that means there’s more reward.

I really like my legs because I’ve worked hard for them. With soccer, that’s the one thing you’re working all the time.

When I play on grass, my body doesn’t ache. It can get sore, but it doesn’t pulse, and my legs don’t ache. When I play on turf, my legs can pulse and ache for up to 24 hours, and it could take 3-5 days to recover, whereas grass, after 24 hours, I’m ready to play again.

I don’t really have many regrets. I did miss a lot of the events in the days leading up to my sister’s wedding because I was at a U17 camp. There were moments like that growing up when I felt like I focused too much on soccer. But that’s probably the reason I am where I am today.

What I really appreciate is the people who come up and say, ‘Thank you for representing our country.’

I rarely felt or noticed any real divide between girls and boys when I was growing up. Maybe it was because I was so involved in sports and competed with the boys. Maybe it was my mom and dad, who constantly instilled confidence in me and never made me feel as though there were boy activities and girl activities.

Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there’s no music.

People know there’s more than one side to me. You can have beauty and brains and athletic ability. You can switch up the cleats for heels once in a while. You can do both.

To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you’re worth – rather than what your employer is paying you.

Even when I’m training alone, I always prefer doing soccer-related stuff. On my own, I’ll run through cones or do some shooting exercises or pass the ball against the wall.

I always map out how to get a good eight or nine hours of sleep before I even start my day. And my rule is to put my phone on silent when I go to bed; that way, no texts or emails can disturb me.

I certainly don’t feel like I have the perfect body type… It’s through your own eyes. And for every female, you’re going to see flaws in that; you’re going to see flaws regardless. So for me, it’s just important to have that confidence and self-esteem no matter what body type you have.

It’s an obstacle being a girl when you move all over and don’t have half the things you need. It’s like everything is wrinkled in your life.

Social media has come a long way. With the good has come some bad, and you always have a lot of people hiding behind their computers and being very critical of what you do on and off the field, of what you tweet, of what you say, of everything you do.

I never look at the goalkeeper’s eyes.

I want young girls to dream about being professional soccer players instead of just watching the boys go out and play.

I want to know I made women’s soccer better than it was when I came into it.

I’m never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it’s hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.

I love yoga. There’s a lot of stretching involved, which helps with my flexibility and injury prevention. Vinyasa is my favorite as a recovery tool and for me to continue having my legs feel good.

When I prepare for a match, it’s like work, even the way I have to shower and put on my makeup.

I start warming up before training an hour before at the hotel. That’s not because I feel old and my body needs it. It’s because it’s prehab. It’s preventing those injuries.

The head-banging music gives me a headache. Katy Perry is fun, Rihanna, old-school ’90s hip-hop. Salt-N-Pepa. I like listening to that. Get the nerves out before the games.

Winning and losing isn’t everything; sometimes, the journey is just as important as the outcome.

I grew up always having dessert after dinner. Always. It’s such a hard habit for me to break. It’s fine to have dessert every once in a while, but not seven days a week!

I feel the most confident when I’m comfortable in workout clothes with my hair up in a ponytail.

It’s great to see women standing up in their own line of work and fighting for fair value.

I think it’s huge, especially in team sports, for players to be able to rely on each other and to really trust in each other.

I was the biggest tomboy growing up. Now I love playing with a full face of makeup.

I could be a model for one night. But I’m also a professional soccer player, and I like to be taken seriously on the field.

There’s those young girls that I once was, looking up to Mia Hamm, Christine Lilly, all those players, and I know how much of an effect they had on me. Knowing that, I feel like I’m in a position where I can really help be a positive influence in girls’ lives.

I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.

I would like to win the Ballon d’Or for women. But every top professional should have that ambition.

I think players need to get paid for what they’re worth, for what they put up on the field.

Sportsmanship is definitely an important thing in all sports. In soccer, we all respect each other on such a high level, between Sweden and Brazil and Japan or whatever team it is.

With me and Portland, it wasn’t moving anywhere. I wasn’t given a bigger role as I played more and more with the club. I felt I could have been utilized in a bigger way.

I played volleyball, basketball, softball, and I started to love soccer the most around 7-8 years old because it was a physical game. I could use my speed and strength to my advantage.

My workouts are mostly interval-based, so I’m never running at a constant speed. I’m always switching it up because I don’t want my body getting used to one thing in particular.

I know the trend I would love to bring back is floral. I think that it’s just so much fun, whether it’s with shoes or outfits or even pants.

After I got my gold medal, I thought, ‘This isn’t just me. It belongs to my team, my friends, my family, the fans, everybody who’s impacted my life – this is our gold medal.’ So when someone asks to try it on, I’m like, ‘Sure, why not?’ I might be a little too relaxed about it, but why would I keep it to myself?

I hate being recognized; I hate it, hate it.

It wasn’t until 1999 when my idols Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly took home the women’s World Cup trophy at the Rose Bowl in front of 40 million TV viewers that I remember thinking how rare it was to see women play sports on TV.

I have done ‘Sports Illustrated,’ but I don’t regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way – as an athlete.

My goal is to show girls that I’m fighting so they don’t have to, so they don’t have to fight the same battles, so they don’t have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.

I think it’s important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don’t win, and that sucks, and you work on improving.

My off-pitch style is probably girly and comfortable. I like a lot of loose-fitting material on top and more tight-fitting material on the bottom.

I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I’m beautiful, even if I don’t necessarily believe it.

Every time you step onto the field, you have to set goals. My goals are to either score a goal, to have an assist, or to play well.

One thing I’m proud to do like a girl is represent my country in the Olympics and at the highest level, at the highest platform that I can.

There’s really no secret to success. You make your own success.

It’s so easy to lose your fitness and so hard to gain it back.

Pregame, I eat pancakes for a meal. I always do mental visualization before the game to prepare myself. Postgame, I typically take ice baths.

You should never be afraid of looking athletic or building too much muscle.

I went from never doing interviews to doing 10 in one day and standing in front of 60,000 fans. Now people look up to me, and I’m seeing little girls wearing my jersey.

My favorite goals are the ones when there’s so much pressure. I focus more when the game is on the line.

I find my motivation from everyone who looks up to me and my teammates. From the little girls that look up to me and tell me they want to be like me when they grow up.

I really try to take a step back from the soccer world and going a thousand miles an hour every day. I like to do some sort of either meditation or mental visualization or breathing exercises – something to calm my mind down because a lot of times, it’s just going faster than it should.

I’ve always wanted to skydive.

I’m not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.

In the 123rd minute of the semifinal game at the Olympics against Canada, I scored the game-winning goal that brought us to the finals. You can’t replicate those do-or-die moments in practice or a friendly game.