Gabrielle Carteris Quotes

Natural ability is important, but you can go far without it if you have the focus, drive, desire and positive attitude.

You always have to stay motivated and try to make the most of where you're at.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.

How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

I always have high expectations for me.

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It's something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, 'How did you get to where you're at today? How did you get to where you're running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?'

In high school I would use that total defeat that I felt in any type of mistake to go to the gym. That's what made me such a hard worker.

I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

I can only do my best, work hard, be positive and confident and I believe in myself. That is the only thing I can do.

I just focus on what I can control, and that's how hard I play and my attitude.

I'm somebody who tries to remain positive and looks forward to setting goals and reaching them. But that's easier said than done.

I'm just trying to be the best basketball player, the best student, the best son, friend, etcetera. I'm just trying to get better in every facet.

You don't need to be criticised to play well or things like that.

When I see a contemporary deliver a good performance, I get inspired to do better. I don't sit and mull over other people's successes; that can be unhealthy.

You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end; that's the only way you'll succeed.

A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.