Scott Hamilton Quotes
39 Scott Hamilton quotes:
"I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal."
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"When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review."
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"I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know."
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"The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded."
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"Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition."
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"Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges."
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"I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have."
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"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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"I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it."
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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 was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus."
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"I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates."
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