Quotes by Scott Hamilton - Page 1

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Inspirational
Life
Positive
Attitude
Bad Attitude
Disability
Motivational Sports
Only
Bad
Life Is A
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Memories just get richer with time.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Figure Skating
Get Rich
Memories
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A bad attitude is the only true handicap.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Attitude
Bad Attitude
Handicaps
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I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Firsts
Nine
Skates
Years
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Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Convincing
Figure Skating
Half
Judging
Opinion
Skating
Judges
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I'm very accessible. I don't get into this ego thing.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Accessible
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Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Attributes
Industry
Rationality
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I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
Figure Skating
Sissy
Want
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I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Teacher
Impact
Thinking
Teachers
How Much
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Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
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From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
Competition
Fall
March
October
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The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Honesty
Integrity
Taking The High Road
Always
High
Road
Respected
Rewarded
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I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Sports
Class
Games
Gold
Medal
Olympic Games
Won
Gold Medal
Graduated
Olympic
Top
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I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Girl
Sports
Calculus
Skating
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Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
America
Female
Figure Skating
Males
Sweetheart
Male
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I don't want to look back-I want to keep looking ahead. I'd hate for my defining moment to be my past.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Life
Hate
Past
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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Tolerance
Complete
Maintain
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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Effort
Giving
People
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Teacher
Allowing
Grades
Ninth Grade
Smarter
Myself Me Better
Teacher Myself Me
Grade
Ninth
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Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
Achievement
Games
Olympic Games
Achievements
Belongs
Competitions
Olympic
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
Figure Skating
Kind
Skating
Vehicle
Great Me Big
Competitive
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Accomplish
Adversity
Perseverance
Skating
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Attention
Facts
Figure Skating
Skating
Center
Liked
Figure
Lends
Show Off
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Running
Sports
Baseball
Circles
Skating
Pick
Play Baseball
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Reviews
Turns
Want
Bad Review
Review
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Daughter
Encouraging
Adversity
Perseverance
Priceless
Self Esteem
Give
Shape
Value
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Skating
Successful
Would Be
Extraordinarily
Never Know Something
Just Something
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The Olympics in '80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Events
Memories
Olympics
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Advantage
Confusing
Fame
People
Great People Never
Great Advantage
Recognized
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
Heart
People
Skating
Touch
People Way Try
Hearts
Performance
Witnessing
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When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
Gold
Medal
Sure Thing
Winning
Gold Medal
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Olympic Gold Medal
Undermine
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Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
Psychology
Steps
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So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
Criticism
Made
Me Better Know
Amateur
Channel
Better Me Know
Olympic
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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 / Figure Skater
Courage
Sports
Figure Skating
Ice
International
Levels
Minutes
Night
Prove
Perform
Nights
Highest Levels
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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.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Best Friend
Friendship
Girl
Sports
Figure Skating
Junior High
Sissy
Funny Best Me
Junior
Junior High School
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That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
Achievement
Country
Golf
Masters
Personal Achievement
Representing
Cup
Sharing
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