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Dorothy Hamill
Olympic Hall of Fame
Dorothy Hamill: My mother got up at 4:00 in the morning. I give her so much more credit today. You know, at the time I was just a kid. Well, that's what, you know, mom is doing. She got up and she'd make breakfast for me and bring it up to me in bed and wake me up and lay my clothes out and help me put them on. And then she'd go warm up the car. You know, in the wintertime it was freezing outside. She'd go down, start the car so I'd get into a warm car. I mean, she treated me like a little princess. And it was what I wanted to do. I didn't really -- a couple of the kids asked me today, you know, "Do you feel as though you missed out on anything in childhood because of your sacrifices?" Absolutely not. I loved it. Skating was the perfect excuse not to have to go to a friend's house, you know, for a sleep over. Not that I didn't have friends or didn't like my friends. I had a couple of very close friends. And I was always being invited to sleep overs and things. I just didn't want to go. So it was the perfect excuse. And you know, I think a lot of that was the shyness. But my mom sacrificed; I didn't sacrifice anything. I just was passionate, you know, it's all that passion.
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Scott Hamilton
Olympic Hall of Fame
I didn't really think that I was gifted or I didn't really think that I was super talented. I was just lucky to have a body that was the right proportion to pick up skating because I was pretty agile. And, the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well. But, I never really thought that I would be extraordinarily successful at skating. It's just something that happened, you know. And you get to a level of expertise or you get to a level competitively and you just try to be as good as you can be. I started winning competitions and I started improving in spurts that were really pretty fortunate because I was at a technical level that was higher than the rest of the guys that were my age, which happened kind of all at once. They were way ahead of me, then I caught up all at once.
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Scott Hamilton
Olympic Hall of Fame
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. "We don't want him. He's too short. He can't hit the ball over second base." But I could skate circles around them. And I ended up playing hockey just out of peer pressure. I didn't want to be the sissy figure skater, you know. So I played hockey for three years and I did quite well. It's just a big man's sport, you know, and I really was undersized. So, figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something without having to be big.
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John Hennessy
President of Stanford University
John Hennessy: When we did the science fair project, which I did with a good friend of mine, Steve Angle, I realized that I had a real interest in technology at that point, and really getting involved in technology. We really didn't know what we were doing. We could have gone out and read some books -- college textbooks of course. But we could have gone out and read some books, and probably cut the amount of time we were spending on the project -- that we had to spend on it to make this thing work -- in half, but we were a little bit naïve. Nonetheless, perseverance, hard work brought us to the right conclusion, and we had something that worked, something we could take great pride in, and I think that really convinced me that I was interested in technology as a field, and going into something in the computing area.
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