Scott Hamilton Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• 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

  Sports, Night, Ice

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

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Games, Achievement

• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Running

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

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Want, Figure Skating

• 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

  Sports, Psychology, Steps

• 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

  Sports, Heart, People

• 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

  Friendship, Girl, Sports

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

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, America, Males

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

  Scott Hamilton

  Girl, Sports, Skating

• 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

  Sports, Criticism, Made

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

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Skating, Kind

• 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

  Sports, Country, Golf

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

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Fall, Competition

• 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

  Sports, Winning, Gold

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

  Scott Hamilton

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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