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

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• Scott Hamilton:

  I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't

• Scott Hamilton:

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

• Scott Hamilton:

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

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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 sc

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

• Scott Hamilton:

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

• Scott Hamilton:

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

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• Scott Hamilton:

  Without strength and courage it's really hard to perform at the highest levels of international fig