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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
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Scott Hamilton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 28
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Scott Scovell Hamilton
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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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I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.
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The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
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Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it.
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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.
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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 was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.
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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.
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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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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.
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Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.
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Memories just get richer with time.
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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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