Scott Hamilton Quotes (60 Quotes)

It has become pretty clear to us that a lot of people have significant damage but not at 50 percent.

Everybody looked at (Ito) and said invincible. Then slowly during that two-week period of time before they started competing, she started to kind of lose the edge. So a lot can happen between now and then, but if you're handicapping right now I'd say a sweep is a possibility.

It was the strongest signal possible to the market that Boeing was here to stay. It also energized the workforce and led to a complete change in attitude.

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.

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

That allows a smaller company like Immaculate Baking to take advantage of what usually benefits only large industries.

Theoretically, it's probably not going to be worth your while to apply. That's one of the problems we're working on. We have to go back to our original intent (for the money). It is our intent to help people who relied on the government. There are people who have already started to rebuild. How do you go back and help them

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.

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.

Think of it as the book that goes along with your tax return.

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

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

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

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

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

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.

We know other people are hurting. There is a large sum of money that might be available for other programs.

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

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

Michelle came along at exactly the right time, financially. Because our rules changed, she was able to continue in sanctioned competitions without making a major financial sacrifice. I think you may see more long Olympic careers like Michelle's, but hers will always be unique.

There is not a particular timetable for the decision on the loan application. But we will begin to review it immediately.

It's been difficult. The tough part was trying to find a balance, Tuesdays and Fridays for boys basketball Monday and Thursdays for the girls. And it's nice for our kids to compete for all-conference and conference championships. Our schedule has been difficult to do, and we made it work as best we could. I think all of that paid off today.

I don't know if it's probable, but it's possible. When you look back since the breakup of the Soviet Union, how many Olympic gold medals haven't they won

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

The company (Airbus) should be embarrassed by its performance in the twin-aisle line.

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.

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

Even though there are huge resources being expended, it just takes a while in order to get momentum going. It is now flowing, and we are making improvements every hour and every day.

We will cheer Emily on enthusiastically, but my heart hurts for Michelle Kwan.

She seems focused, she seems comfortable on the ice and she seems at ease. Her qualities are obvious. She's an amazingly beautiful skater.

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

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

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.

It doesn't means all the roads are open to the public, but emergency units have more capacity to travel.

Even though I had tried to mentally prepare myself for bad news, there was no damming up the flood of emotions roaring through my body, ... Landing It My Life on and Off the Ice.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Without them (the China order), Airbus would have come in at the 905 planes (net) estimated by analysts and industry observers.

The people here have already had so much taken away. We don't want them now thinking they are going to die in the shelters.

If people have come back, if they don't have the right information, if we create problems up front that have to be solved later, it'll delay everything.

I don't think anybody in their wildest dreams at the beginning of the year thought they would do this well.

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

I don't care how many of these things I can inject into my body, am I going to be able to compete with Shaquille O'Neal on the basketball court No. Or would he be able to compete with me on the skating surface No. So there's a lot to just basic genetics, body style, physical stature, and then the mental capability, too. There's more to sports than just being big and strong and quick.

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

It's hard to ask people who have been through so much for patience. But no one has ever done this before.

This just sends, I think, a heck of a message to the company, that their proposal wasn't just a little off-base. It was way off-base.

They are owed by the company, not by the state. They need to get their bills paid by the company.

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