My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

Nobody really knows who I am, where I came from, what's in my heart, why I believe in the things I believe, what I see behind the scenes and they don't see.

My life goes in four-year cycles. The World Cup is every four years and the Olympics are every four years.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

Every athlete acquires routines as a way to help control nerves.

I'm just going to embrace every experience.