I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.

The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.

My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

I would like to instill in people just to work hard. As long as they keep at it, their dreams will happen.

We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

It's important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It's about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.

Crazy is such a misunderstood term. I like to think that I march to the beat of my own drummer.

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.

I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

The most important lesson I've learned is that the most productive exercises are simple and compound.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes.

The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.