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.

People think we have coasted the last four years. We fought, we had a lot of battles. We've always had to battle.

Sometimes it's just the beer and bikinis that get people to come and watch, but it's the competition that's keeping them there.

My support system, in my surgeon, my P.T., my pilates, my weightlifting, everything that I'm doing to make my body and my mind stronger is just, you know, has been on point. So I feel very prepared for the journey to qualify, and the journey to wear the gold medal.

We were very aggressive, and when we're aggressive, it's hard to stop us.

My job is to be fit and I'm really blessed that I get to go and work out and live a really healthy lifestyle.

Well there's only one way to prepare for playing beach volleyball, and that's by getting in the sand. But offseason is really important because generally I'm staying off the sand and getting my feet under me, and it's really important for my body to know what it feels like to have sound footing under me.