Scott Hamilton Quotes

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton

Life, Attitude, Bad

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

Give, Adversity, Value

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

Integrity, Honesty, Road

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

Give, Try, Effort

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

Life, Everything, Adversity

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

Teacher, Smarter, Grade

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

Great, Before, Seen

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

Feeling, Through, Try

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

Great, Big, Skating

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

Off, Fact, Show

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

Successful, Thought, Happened

From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition.
Scott Hamilton

Lost, Fall, March

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
Scott Hamilton

Opinion, Half, Skating

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

Figure, Skater, Sissy

I don't think most teachers realize how much impact they have.
Scott Hamilton

Realize, Teachers, Impact

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

Graduation, Won, Games

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

Baseball, Play, Around

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

Interested, Skating, Traveling

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

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

Ego, Accessible

Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.
Scott Hamilton

Different, America, Skating

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

Everybody, Individual, Games

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.
Scott Hamilton

Industry, Attributes

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

Made, Loved, Criticism

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

Country, Wonderful, Everyone

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 13, 1958

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