Alex Morgan Quotes

Club or national training is the same. We play as we train.

The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.

Once you see the leader of the team, the point guard of the team who has the ball pretty much the whole time in the game directing everybody, I think it just rubs off on everybody.

I'm used to having the ball, man. So, not really having the ball in my hands... it's just me trying to find different ways to impact the game.

At Milan, Kaka used to work even when we had two or three days off. And our fitness coach, Daniele Tognaccini, made him run.

Before I receive the ball I already know how that play is developing so I'm able to give rhythm to that play.

As players, we have to concentrate with what happens on the pitch, not off it.

Training-wise, you have to work on your weaknesses, preparing yourself properly for the game, on and off the field.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

I'm just going to continue to make good plays. Making the right decisions, good decisions with the ball so my team can play with a great flow.

I have one thing in mind: make the most out of football.

This game in a lot of ways, isn't that complex. You bring energy to the table and you've got a chance. You bring fundamentals to the table and you've got a chance. It's not always about scheme and all that magic-behind-the-curtain stuff.

Always, always, always when you prepare for a game, you prepare to win the match.

I don't think any other college coach could have prepared me as well as Coach Bennett, just in terms of mental toughness, being able to grasp concepts and retain information.

If we concede three, and I am marvellous on the ball, it is no good.

Since a very young age, I've dreamt of being a professional soccer player, and from a psychological and mental aspect, I've tried to prepare myself to be a good player.

Training with Guardiola is good. He's always talking to each player, trying to give them a vision of the style of football he wants to play.

When I think of the most valuable coach, I definitely think of a coach like Geno Auriemma, and the things I learned from him that stick out in my mind are his passion for the game, competing at all the little things and doing it at a high level.

The one thing I learnt going to Italy was there's no real change in how the game should be played, but how players look after themselves.

Preparation goes on even when you are out of the team, as you can do it anywhere.

It's called tactical periodisation because you push the physical and the psychological part together, but with organisation. So you run, but you run all the time with the ball. Always with the ball.

Once I'm in training camp, there's no beer, there's no soda, there's no bad food. There's no anything. It's eat, sleep and breathe training.

I keep my focus on the team and concentrate on the best possible match preparations.

Even though I was sitting on the bench at Arsenal, I made myself prepare like I was going to play, thinking about the game properly. I had to be ready.

I don't need any more motivation. I'm fighting Canelo Alvarez. If that can't get me motivated, then I'm in the wrong sport.