Alex Morgan Quotes

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

Being faster would probably make me better at football.

I think I play well getting up and down the court.

I see myself as a pretty mobile big man.

I learned how to defend the ball with my body and to be faster than my opponents.

Football is a very instinctual game, and it's very fast-paced.

Cristiano - he has it all. He has a right foot, left foot, is good in the air, so quick.

I was always fast; I was always racing guys that were older than me and beating them, so I always had speed. I was able to make good cuts at a young age, on the side of the house with my dad, going through different plays, working on cuts and stuff like that.

For me, soccer was a dance.

I first discovered my turn of pace when I was playing football as a kid.

Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.

The tag that I was too small and too slow just made me work that much harder. Besides, quickness is more important than flat-out speed. How often does a receiver run 40 yards straight down the field? Not very often. Lateral speed is what counts. How quickly can you get in and out of a cut? I can do that as well as anyone.

I'm a really fast runner. No one can catch me - I'm quick.

I'm going to focus on speed, doing little things like my turns and my starts - just speed.

I love Mbappe. He is so quick, carries the ball so fast, and can run the length of the pitch.

I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.

I even steal bases. I hear all the time that I'm slow, but hey, I have 66 stolen bases.

One of my friends, Bruno Andrade, was so quick, he just used to knock the ball past whoever he was playing against, and I thought, 'Why can't I do that?' Until then, I would try to dribble and maybe try a stepover, but Andre would just knock it then - beep, beep - and he was so fast, he would get there first.

I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.

For me speed and power is the most important thing on the footy field as well as agility which I work on everyday.

I just used to bank on my athleticism.

In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.

The players who tend to make the difference are often great dribblers. Some are very fast; others have a repertoire of moves and feints. These players need to have great technique in order to be good dribblers. But I'm not a good dribbler.

My special thing is my speed. I'm fast.

Speed has always been there in college football.