What really excited me at the end was the challenge of being the best I can be and prolonging my best level and playing against the best players in the world. But now that I don't have the opportunity to play against the best players in the world when it counts, in front of fans, it doesn't excite me as much.

Having a goal in your mind helps you manifest it in some way.

You should always want your coach to be critical. It gives you an opportunity to learn and to overcome adversity

I am thrilled to be an Olympian, and I think that although we will be underdogs we can beat many teams and will be a surprise in Sydney.

We've got very few bodies right now so we were tired, but we've also got a lot of character and we want to win.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.