Alex Morgan Quotes

When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.

I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

I didn't take many penalties, but I never missed one.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

If I take a penalty, I prefer to take it with my right foot.

I just try to focus in to what I'm supposed to do at the line and shoot the basketball.

You try and take every kick exactly the same, no matter if it's the beginning or the last minute.

Just to keep my mind sharp. When you have like one job, you want to think about it enough to do well, but you can't over think it. It's not rocket science. It's just trying to kick the ball through the uprights.

If you face the goalkeeper, you have to wait for him to go and then put the ball in the other side. It's easy to say it but not so easy to do it when you are in the 88th minute of a game. So you must practise.

That is what shooting is. There is no secret sauce, man. You've got to find mechanics that you can make the same every time, and you've got to do it over and over again, and you can't just shoot for rhythm. You've got to understand what you are doing. You have to focus on those details every day.

It doesn't matter how tough you are. It doesn't matter how smart you are or what a great leader you are. None of that stuff matters if you can't put the ball where you have to put it.

I used to practise my free-kicks a lot.

All I really think about is, 'Don't try to kick the ball too hard,' because a lot of times when I missed kicks, it was because I tried to kill it. I just try to think of a smooth swing, being slow and under control, and making the kick.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit it, you're able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots... it's a beautiful thing.

You can't swing with hesitation; you can't try to steer the ball to the flag; you can't worry about that water hazard as you take the club back. You have to pick the right club, visualize the shot you want to hit, and then focus on that shot until the ball is gone.

So you have to be more mentally focused in baseball.

I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.

I don't believe in luck. Not in golf, anyway. There are good bounces and bad bounces, sure, but the ball is round and so is the hole. If you find yourself in a position where you hope for luck to pull you through, you're in serious trouble.

To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.

I was born to score goals, I feel. How I score them - how I get the ball into the back of the net - might have changed. The actual ability of what I was born to do will never leave me.