Scott Hamilton Quotes

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Scott Hamilton

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 28, 1958

Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international figure skating, because you're alone on the ice and you only have seven minutes over two nights to prove yourself.

Scott Hamilton

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

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What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to be their best friend because they wanted to meet all the girls that I knew in figure skating.

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The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

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Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

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Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

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I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

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And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

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Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

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Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

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Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

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Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

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I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.

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I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

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But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.

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I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

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I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.

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And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

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I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.

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