Quotes by Alex Morgan - Page 2

Pregame, I eat pancakes for a meal. I always do mental visualization before the game to prepare myself. Postgame, I typically take ice baths.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Baths
Ice
Pancakes
Visualization
Myself Always Game
Eat
Game
Before
Myself Game Always
Meal
Mental
Prepare
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Whenever people say 'women's soccer,' I want to correct them to say 'soccer.' Every girl has had their sport diminished because they're girls.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Girl
Soccer
Correct
Diminished
Sport
People Say
Whenever
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Bottom
Girly
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Headphones
Minutes
Ninety
Percent
Time Music Will
Literally
Ninety Percent
Realize
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When people say, 'You run like a girl; you play like a girl,' it's not what it used to be. That shouldn't be negative. You should be proud to play like a girl.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Girl
Negative
Proud
Should
Used
Run
Say
People Say
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I wasn't the most technical player. But I was fast, and if I push the ball past a player, I can get there. Everyone always made fun of me in a good way for that.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Good Way
Good Me Past
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Motivation
Teammates
Look Me Grow
Little Girls
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Fans
Jersey
One Day
Seeing
Standing
Me Look Day
Look Me Day
Front
Wearing
Little Girls
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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!
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Habit
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... Really get to know and establish relationships with your teammates because they are your new family and they will be the ones there for you when anything goes wrong.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Anything Goes
New Family
Teammate
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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.
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Bigger
Portland
Me Way More
Anywhere
Club
More And More
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At home, my mom and my dad shared equally in the responsibilities of the family and our home and always demonstrated the importance of men and women having an equal role.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Equal
Importance
Men And Women
Family Men Women
Family Women Men
Responsibilities
Role
Shared
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I always, always decide where I'm going with the ball before I take a penalty shot, stare at the ball, follow through, and never look at the place that I'm going to shoot.
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Follow Through
Look Always Never
Penalty
Stare
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Ability
Heels
Beauty Me People
Brains
Side
Switch
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Alone
My Own
Shooting
Stuff
Training
Wall
Against
Prefer
Ball
Run
Exercises
Pass
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Headache
Nerves
Music Me Fun
Rihanna
Perry
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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.
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Hotel
Preventing
Body Needs
Injuries
Warming
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I feel like I'm always looking to continue improving myself. I'm always looking to win. I'm super competitive, so going into the Olympics, I feel like that's nothing different.
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Improving
Olympics
Competitive
Super
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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.
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Constant
Speed
Switching
Workouts
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As a professional soccer player, I need to get touches on the ball every day, and obviously it's a lot easier to do that with a team than to motivate yourself to do it by yourself.
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Easier
Soccer
Team
Yourself Day Every Day
Ball
Every Day
Motivate
Obviously
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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.
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Equality
Girl
Fighting
May
Battles
Show
Same
Fight
Whatever
Wage
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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.
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Respect
Sports
Brazil
High Level
Japan
Soccer
Sportsmanship
Sweden
Team
Definitely
Important Thing
Level
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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.
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Volleyball
Soccer
Softball
Speed
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My goal against Italy in the World Cup qualifier was probably my most memorable: we had to go to Italy and had to win, or we wouldn't go to the World Cup, and I scored in stoppage time.
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Memorable
World Cup
Time World Win
Cup
Italy
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At the FIFA World Player of the Year event, FIFA executives and FIFA president Sepp Blatter didn't know who I was. And I was being honored as top three in the world. That was pretty shocking.
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Executives
Fifa
Honored
Shocking
Event
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Nine
Silent
Good Always Me
Good Me Day
Disturb
Emails
Map
Texts
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Yoga
Feel Good
Flexibility
Injury
Involved
Legs
Prevention
Recovery
Stretching
Love Good Me
Love Good Feel Good
Favorite
Continue
Helps
Tool
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I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better.
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Always Trying
Games
Get Better
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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.
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Canada
Finals
Friendly
Olympics
Replicate
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My dad has been to every soccer game that I've played in, both at the amateur level and at the professional level, and he always had great things to say whether we won or we lost, whether I felt great or not so great.
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Great Things
Soccer
Great Dad Game
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Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn't good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.
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Age
Good
Discouraged
Enough
Soccer
Team
Youth
Time Age Youth
Very
Time Good Age
Me
Get
Around
Never
Game
Club
Coach
First
Would
Playing
She
While
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Sports
Idols
Viewers
World Cup
Tv
Bowl
Rare
Cup
Front
Million
Took
Trophy
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I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't want to be put in the same category as another athlete that I don't necessarily think is a good role model.
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Athlete
Work Good People
Category
Previous
Role Model
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I am hugely honored to represent my country in the Olympics and in World Cups, and I'm grateful for all the advantages being a professional soccer player brings my way - the opportunities to see the world, the camaraderie and friendships, and more.
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Camaraderie
Cups
Grateful
Honored
Olympics
Player
Soccer
Advantages
Brings
Represent
Friendships
World I Am Country
Hugely
Opportunities
Professional
World Cups
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Computers
Critical
Hiding
Long
Long Way
Media
Social
Social Media
Tweet
Good Always Long
Bad
Behind
Field
Off
On And Off
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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.
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Christine
Influence
Position
Effect
How Much
Young Girls
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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.
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Body
Grass
Hours
Legs
Pulse
Ready
Turf
Aches
After
Days
Could
Recover
Sore
Whereas
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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.
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Halfway
Soccer
Always Your Me
Advocate
Me Your Always
Foot
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Honestly, with stats and things like that, I try not to think about them. I just find that the more you think about goals and assists - what you need to do and accomplish - the more you tend to fall short. When you hope for something and you want something, it comes to you.
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Accomplish
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I have a couple of go-to sneakers off the pitch. I like to have shoes that I can slip on and wear with anything. I travel often, so it's about finding those two or three pairs of shoes that can go with any outfit, whether they go with leggings or a skirt or a dress or jeans.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Travel
Jeans
Pairs
Sneakers
Three
Finding
Wear
Outfit
Skirt
Slip
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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.
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Wedding
Soccer
Camp
Leading
Regrets
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I really started to enjoy Instagram more recently because it's something that shows people what I'm doing and what I'm going through, but it's so simple. I don't have to come up with something witty; it's just a funny photo, and you can be as artistic or as plain Jane as you want.
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Jane
Funny Simple People
Photo
Plain
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Calm
Faster
Meditation
Miles
Soccer
Thousand
Thousand Miles
Visualization
Either
Exercises
Hour
Mental
Step
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Confidence
Female
Flaws
Perfect
Self Esteem
Type
Eyes Your Me
Certainly
Eyes
Regardless
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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?
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Gold
Medal
Relaxed
Why Not
Life Family Myself
Belongs
Gold Medal
Impacted
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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.
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Confidence
Sports
Growing Up
Involved
Mom And Dad
Mom Dad Me
Activities
Boy
Constantly
Divide
Sports Dad Mom
Instilled
Noticed
Rarely
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I try to push myself a little every day. For me, it's doing 10 more seconds of whatever I'm working on. So if I'm on the treadmill sprinting my butt off or doing a grueling core workout, I think to myself, 'You can do 10 more seconds, and you'll be that much mentally stronger.' After a while, those 10 seconds add up!
Alex Morgan / Soccer Player
Add
Core
Seconds
Stronger
Workout
Myself Me Day
Mentally
Butt
Grueling
Treadmill
Sprinting
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