Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

I'm doing mental training as well. So, you know, body, mind, and spirit - everything is being addressed, every single day. Generally I'll have three training sessions a day.

But they've [my children] made me better. They hold me more accountable for who I am and who I aspire to be, and they make me want to be better. And that's not just as a mommy, but as a woman and as an athlete.

Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

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.

As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system.