Alex Morgan Quotes

born 1989 United States

Alexandra Morgan Carrasco (born Alexandra Patricia Morgan; July 2, 1989) is an American professional soccer player for the Orlando Pride of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the highest division of women's professional soccer in the United States, and the United States women's national soccer team. She co-captained the United States women's national soccer team with Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe from 2018 to 2020.

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When you have 12 teams in an Olympics in comparison to a World Cup where you have double that amount of teams, I think every single team is going to be difficult.

My confidence makes me strong. Dedicating a lot of my life to my profession and feeling fulfilled makes me strong. Having a family and a husband who challenge me makes me strong.

Before I got pregnant, my mindset was like, it’s possible that I’ll never reach my potential again.

The Advice Alex Morgan Would Give Her Daughter About Getting Into Sports (2021)

I want to show that I deserve to be at the top. I want to be the best player that I can be, that I can be a valuable member of the team after being a mother.

I kind of knew coming back after giving birth was gonna be a process and that I was going to have to be patient with myself and my body. [But] I definitely put pressure on myself.

You have to figure it out you have to be mom and a professional athlete. There’s a lot of athletes going to Tokyo that are also fellow mom athletes and I’m excited to catch up with them and kind of just represent all the moms, soccer moms united.

The fight that we are doing right now for equal pay does not mean that we will achieve it in the short term. We are not going to get the equal pay right away, but it may be done by the time my daughter plays soccer and she will not suffer what we suffered.

We’re trying to do the same thing and we’ve come a long way. But it gets exhausting having to do this every day, every week. Our male counterparts have not had to fight as much – so sometimes you feel a little exhausted always having to prove yourself and show your worth.

Alex Morgan: ‘If Fifa start respecting the women’s game more, others will follow (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alex Morgan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.