Alex Morgan Quotes

I'm a huge believer in visualizing achieving the task before it happens.

There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don't feel it.

I think anytime you put the weight of the world on yourself saying, 'I have to perform,' or, 'I have to get a completion. I have to throw a touchdown,' nine times out of 10, I think you're going to fail.

In the past, I put too much pressure on myself. I went out there and I tried so hard to get the ball in the hole, I tried so hard to hit the perfect shots.

I've just always believed you can get anything you want in this life - anything you want.

As soon as he thinks about the record, he's finished. The secret is to put it out of your mind.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

I really think you can manifest your dreams. You can manifest your destiny. If you want something hard enough and you're willing to work for it, I think you can get it. I truly believe that.

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.

When I got to match point in the final I was afraid I'd be a little nervous, but I just said, You have to stay focused, just think about what you have to do.

In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors.

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

When I go on a pitch, I just try to enjoy it as much as I can. The more you enjoy it, the better you play.

I think I get going because I try not to put added pressure on myself because a lot of times, you can be very good at what you do, but when you get ready, you have to be prepared to get it going.

When you're in the second set and you start thinking I have to win this and get it over, the pressure to finish quickly can get to you.

You've got to kind of speak things into existence if you really want them to happen.

I don't take pressure or keep expectations because then it becomes difficult to concentrate.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.

I was worrying about how Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood would get me out and how I would counter it, but in doing that forgot how I was going to score runs and put pressure on them, which is what I'm good at. I have to be more focussed on myself.

I just can't put the pressure on of winning a championship, winning a championship, because then I'd never be able to sleep.