Selena Gomez

My fears are only going to continue to show me what I'm capable of.

The more that I face my fears, the more that I feel I'm gaining strength and gaining wisdom and I just want to keep doing that.

You know, what I try to do is just try to be still and understand that things come and go, emotions come and go.

The important thing is to accept them all, to embrace them all, and then you can choose to do with them what you want versus being controlled by emotion.

A lot of times I've seen players, even myself, when I was younger, being consumed by a particular fear and to the point where you're saying, okay, nah, it's not good to feel fear.

I shouldn't be nervous in this situation.

And then it gives you the ability to look at it for really what it is, which is nothing more than your imagination running its course.

You think about game winning shots or game winning free throws and people go to the free throw line and they're nervous about it.

Well, what are you really nervous about?

You gotta be able to look at it and deal with it head on.

You know, you grow up and you make game winning shots and it's awesome.

And you come back the next day and miss a game winning shot and it's misery.

And then the next day comes and you're back playing again.

And you understand that life has this cyclical nature where it's, you know, what you do on Monday, it's fantastic.

But then Tuesday is a bad day, but guess what?

You have players that are like bigger and faster and stronger and their coaches are just coaching them for results.

We're just gonna use your size because you're bigger than every other 12 year old out there to dominate today, but they're not growing.

So they're just based on that result, but they're not focused on growing this young child into becoming a better athlete.

Where did that come from?

Well, I had to do that because I grew up, growing up in Italy, when I first moved over there, I didn't speak Italian, I didn't have any friends.