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.

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.

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.

My favorite power food is Greek yogurt and honey.

Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, has this wealth called time.

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

I would rather be disliked for who I am than to be respected for who I'm not.

Fairness through leveling is the essence of Obamaism.

Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarding who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome.

America's racist, so what do you expect.

I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.

Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.

A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.