Scott Hamilton Quotes

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• The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
• I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
• Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
• When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.
• 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…
• 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…
• But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
• 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…
• I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.
• The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
• Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
• Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.
• And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
• And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
• From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.
• Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
• I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
• 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.
• I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
• Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.

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