Michael Carter-Williams Quotes

Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

I learned something very important early on: You accept what happens and move on. In other words, if I hit a bad shot, I can't change it. There is only the next shot. That was a big lesson.

I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.

You can't have self-pity. At some point, you have to say, 'These are the cards I've been dealt, and I'm going to play them.'

If I miss a shot, make a turnover - move on to the next play, don't compound the mistake by getting down.

My mentality is that no matter how good or bad the previous play was, move on to the next one.

You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.

There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just get on with it! It's called life, and I love life. You have to be positive, and you have to crack on no matter what.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

Tennis is like, it gives you a lot of chances, but if you don't take those chances, it takes a lot of chances away from you. It's just the scoring pattern. We cannot dwell over a loss or a win for very long. We have no time to celebrate; we have no time to dwell; we have to move on. Wake up the next day and try and win the match.

Being given a terrible piece of information shouldn't ruin the interactions you have with the people around you or mean that you can't become something, even if it's not the idea of what you thought you were going to be.

I'm a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

There's no point dwelling on the worst things people have said - there's a job to do.

No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.

If they come after me and my bowling you get a bit down. But when I am fielding I think about it and there are worse things that can happen. I take in the atmosphere a bit and think this is not too bad.

Everybody gets frustrated when they lose. But at the end of the day I can control what I do. Whatever team I'm on, let's roll.

I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.

You just take your hits on the chin and move on, that's life.

I don't care how my past was or what I had to go through.

Relegation hurts, of course. It's one of the things that you will keep forever. But you have to move on as soon as you can.

Mistakes do happen and life goes on.