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Scott Hamilton QUOTES

Scott Hamilton QUOTES

1 " The only disability in life is a bad attitude/ "

― Scott Hamilton

2 " The only disability in life is a bad attitude. "

― Scott Hamilton

3 " Some bad things are going to happen, but more great things are going to happen. If you tend to see more bad than good, then you have to build that positive muscle in your brain much like an athlete does certain muscles to execute a certain move. "

― Scott Hamilton , The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to Be Miserable)

4 " I learned that once you take advantage of the opportunity to learn and experience and open yourself to a new way of living, you can't wait to do it again and do it better and find new ways of feeling that again and again and again. "

― Scott Hamilton , The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to Be Miserable)

5 " What's the point of doing anything if it's easy? It's so much more valuable when a challenge has to be overcome. "

― Scott Hamilton , The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to Be Miserable)

6 " The only disability in life is a bad attitude. -Scott Hamilton "

― Scott Hamilton

7 " Focus on building up others, and your own sense of self-worth will improve. Some call these random acts of human kindness. But the truth is, acting unselfishly is not random at all. Instead, it is a conscious, concerted effort to make the world better by making someone else's life better. The bonus: you will be happier by doing it. "

― Scott Hamilton , The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to Be Miserable)

8 " The only handicap in life is a bad attitude. "

― Scott Hamilton

9 " it doesn't matter what the challenge is -athletics, business, romance, health, academics, the arts- the rule for getting up is the same. you just get up! "

― Scott Hamilton , The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to Be Miserable)

10 " you always have to keep things fun. if you don't, no matter how many awards you win or how much money you make, you will never be happy. "

― Scott Hamilton , The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to Be Miserable)

11 " My job was to make sure that my pain was not visible to the audience. They came to escape their troubles, not to be drawn into my own pain. "

― Scott Hamilton , The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to Be Miserable)

12 " Have you ever stopped for a minute to think about how many things had to go wrong in your life for you to end up exactly where you are? "

― Scott Hamilton , Finish First: Winning Changes Everything

13 " The path to victory is the path you’re on. It becomes a path to victory the moment you decide it does. "

― Scott Hamilton , Finish First: Winning Changes Everything

14 " Each movement is only learned after you've perfected the one before it. "

― Scott Hamilton , The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (Even When You Have Every Reason to Be Miserable)

15 " This is the power of finishing first. This is the power of showing up, leveraging your strengths and weaknesses, and outworking everyone. My world would never be the same. "

― Scott Hamilton , Finish First: Winning Changes Everything

16 " If you finish first, your friends may become jealous, your family might think you’ve gotten too big for your britches, and your competition might put a target on your back. So it’s better to not compete. Better, that is, for your friends, your family, and your competition. But it’s not better for you.

Donald Miller "

― Scott Hamilton , Finish First: Winning Changes Everything

17 " The reality is people are comfortable with you where you are. Your lack of success makes them feel safe and predictable because you serve as a point of reference for how much better their situation is than yours. Inside, you likely know if you start moving up, your sense of security in their ecosystem will be threatened. So you stay. But are you satisfied?
Losing as a means to survive socially is the stuff of a sad life. It’s sad because the best thing that can happen to your friends, your family, and even your competition is for you to succeed. Yes, it may disrupt the ecosystem for a moment, but soon after you switch into a faster lane, the horns will stop honking, the middle fingers will descend, and people will begin to accept the new and improved you. And the friends worth keeping around will begin to improve their lives, too. Successful people set the pace for the rest of us.

Donald Miller "

― Scott Hamilton , Finish First: Winning Changes Everything

18 " We haven’t even stopped to consider the fact that losing might not hurt anyone. What if, by shielding people in this way, we’re stealing the transformational power of both winning and losing in their lives?
The irony is that if you believe nothing matters in life, you will live a life that doesn’t matter. "

― Scott Hamilton , Finish First: Winning Changes Everything

19 " Maybe to you it seems arrogant or selfish to think of yourself on a podium. You were trained to hold the door open for others, to be kind, thoughtful, sacrificial, and helpful. You were taught that the last would be first. Nothing is wrong with any of that. And as an Olympic athlete, I can say with confidence that the best way to help people—maybe even the only way to help anyone—is to start chipping away at the part of you that worries you don’t have much to offer. Become someone who is worthy of winning, and you’ll have a wider, greater impact than you ever dreamed possible.
In addition to this idea that winners are selfish and losers are the good guys, we also have the idea that winners and losers are preselected, and that doesn’t feel fair. Yes, some of us are born with more resources than others, more access, more opportunities. But only one qualification makes someone more likely to win: they choose to win.
The number-one predictor for whether you will be a winner is if you decide to be one. It’s a choice only you can make. And once you make it, nothing will be able to stop you. "

― Scott Hamilton , Finish First: Winning Changes Everything

20 " The problem was, at Nationals, I fell five times and came in dead last. Dead. Last. Talk about losing. At least when I lose, I go all the way. Of all the losers, I proved to be the best.
Looking back, I can’t help but think about how important all of this losing was in terms of preparing me for my future success. This is something few people talk about—how much losing really goes into winning. If there were a recipe for winning, losing would be a main ingredient. Just when you think you’ve added too much, add some more. "

― Scott Hamilton , Finish First: Winning Changes Everything