111 Quotes by Scott Hamilton

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Olympics in ’80 was phenomenal. It was my favorite memory of all competitive events, because it was brand new and it was exciting.

When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don’t want to get a bad review.

Rationality is not one of this industry’s attributes.

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

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.