All sports have a zone, but ours is at 95 mph. You can feel the speed; you can feel the wind. It's the most euphoric thing I've ever done.
Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three.
I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!
I've always been the type willing to try a lot of different things.
I've been in plenty of crashes! Some are not too bad - resulting in ice burn. Others are pretty rough, and sometimes - rarely, but sometimes - people do get seriously injured. It's a risk we all know of and accept. If you bobsled, you're going to crash - guaranteed.
I'm not sure I'll ever love softball as much as bobsled. It's like having children: you don't love one more than the other, you just love them differently, and that's how my love for softball is vs. my love of bobsled - two totally different sports with different personalities.
After giving up softball, I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn't really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over.
I played all kinds of sports growing up: soccer, basketball, track. You name it, I've probably played it.
Bobsled is a universal sport, and most people don't know that. Anybody can slide down a hill.
I was a shortstop in softball, and a lot of times I had collisions with base runners coming in, so I definitely have scars.
Bobsleigh is best for athletes who are fast and strong, which were my strengths in softball.
Making the transition from softball to bobsleigh was difficult, but my family and friends believed in me when no one else would.
Anything worth having is worth working for.
Oh my gosh, cheat meals I could go on and on about.
Most people watch a game because they're excited about it; I'll sit there and watch lacrosse championships to try to find a female who could be a bobsledder.
I'll do whatever I need to do to bring more athletes to the sport.
I don't put limits on anybody.
I love this sport, and I want people to have the opportunities that I have. I want the kid in the inner city to know that she can be a bobsledder one day, and I want the kid in the middle of Africa to know that she can be a bobsledder one day. So the more that we can go out there and grow the sport, the better.
Anytime you hit a curve, or you hit on the side of the wall, you hit against the side of the sled. We're taking four to five, sometimes six or seven Gs on our body every time we go down the track. And then the crashing.
I've been on every type of nutrition plan you can think of.
