Scott Hamilton
Scott Hamilton
Scott Scovell Hamiltonis a retired American figure skater and Olympic gold medalist. He won four consecutive U.S. championships, four consecutive World Championshipsand a gold medal in the 1984 Olympics. His signature move is a backflip, a feat that few other figure skaters could perform and is against USFSA and Olympic competition rules, but which he would include in his exhibition routines to please the crowd...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFigure Skater
Date of Birth28 August 1958
CityToledo, OH
CountryUnited States of America
You know, it's funny ... skating has always given me life,
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.
Figure skating is an industry now. What's in the best interest of the industry? That's a consideration.
Memories just get richer with time.
I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know.
I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.
And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.
And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.
But I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating, it's just something that happened, you know.
Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.
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.
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.
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.