"Gosh, I was almost borderline neurotic about things," Kreis said with a smirk. "Speak to my wife, and it was starting really from two or three days before the match, I would have to eat the same things at the same times. Two nights before the games it was always steak. One night before it was always pasta. Four hours before the game, it was pasta and chicken. The mornings of the game, there always needed to be some pancakes or some type of starch involved.