It's clear that women athletics are pretty far behind in every way. In terms of facilities, how much we make, everything.

I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.

I've learned that winning isn't everything, and it's more about the journey. But at the end of the day, I just want to stand on the podium with the gold medal.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

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.

You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

I put all of my energy into building the game and giving women opportunities and, to put everything into it and then to be deemed selfish or not a good team player or outspoken, it's been hard. But at the same time, I'm going to get the critics and I know that.