Quotes from Jill Ellis

If we're about winning world championships, we can't just have all of our focus be on the Olympics.

When you go through a tournament of seven games, there are peaks and valleys. You kind of ride the players that are hot.

Every game you play, you gain. There's always valuable lessons.

What I've always valued is people.

To be respectful to opponents is to play hard against them.

You spend a lot of time as a coach going through every possible scenario. That's the kind of level of depth and versatility you have to go through. When I did that, things started to really fall into place.

What I know about Ali Krieger is no moment is ever going to be too big for her.

I have a tremendous staff around me. It's a really good family vibe in terms of our environment.

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?