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The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.
I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now
Breathe, believe, and battle.' My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe-be in the moment. Believe-have faith that you can rise above it. Battle-you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes.
The advice I will give my children, if and when they have Olympic aspirations, will be to go for it.
It's the best thing in the world, the most challenging thing in the world, being a parent, and one of the first lessons I learned was to ask for help.
My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.
I used to sleep, eat, breathe volleyball. Now I have that with my kids.
We want to seal the deal that we're the best team that's ever happened.
If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.
I think the hard part is over. Now it's time for us to play.
To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.
People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.
We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us.
What's not to love about us! People got to know Misty and me in Athens. We've continued to be successful and continued to connect with the fans. I promise we're going to be tough to get rid of.
In my heart, I'm so far from done.
We had two goals...One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow. The other was to win a gold medal.
We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years.
You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.
Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal.
Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.
We have to fight the entire time, we can't start at the end when it's getting down to crunch time. We can't leave anything on the floor.
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