Kiraly’s secret: Not trying to be better than good

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 14, 2016 – Three-time Olympic gold medallist Karch Kiraly said the secret of success at the Olympic Games is not trying to be better than good, but to keep just being good game after game.

Karch Kiraly, Coach of United States: Coming up to the Olympic Games I said our group presented a lot of challenges from the start against Puerto Rico. I think each team is better and four of them are going into the quarterfinals. Going out undefeated gives us a great feeling but nothing more than that. Maybe we are going to face a team that didn’t do that well in the other group.

On today’s match against China

China came out playing very good volleyball. They really pushed us in the first set and we had too many service mistakes. I have to give a lot of credit to our captain Christa Dietzen and Kelsey Robinson for coming in and giving us a lift off the bench. Jordan Larson played a phenomenal match.

On Setter Alicia Glass

She has been fantastic and this has been her team in a lot of ways. She helped us to a world championship a couple of years ago and to a bronze medal at the World Cup. She really helps the …

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