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Dorothy Hamill, Olympic Hall of Fame

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Dorothy Hamill

Olympic Hall of Fame

I think the reason I won the Olympics was sheer perseverance. Not because I was certainly more talented than anybody else. I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice and the last one off. I'm just one of those people that has to be overtrained and overworked before I can do my best. That's unlike a lot of my friends and colleagues today. But so, you know, it was just sheer perseverance. I was not the most talented, still am not the most talented. Whatever I've done has just come through hard work really, and the love of it and the passion for it.
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Scott Hamilton, Olympic Hall of Fame

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Scott Hamilton

Olympic Hall of Fame

You've got to fall down a lot. You've got to make a lot of mistakes. And you've got to fight for your place in the world, whatever it is. You know, whether it is in business or entertainment or the media or whatever. And you've got to take a lot of knocks and you've got to spill some blood in order to get there. And, that's part of the process.
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Scott Hamilton, Olympic Hall of Fame

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Scott Hamilton

Olympic Hall of Fame

The judge that told me I was too short to compete on the international level. Well, I'll prove her wrong, and I did. Another judge who just didn't really like me that much and was very powerful, always throwing up roadblocks, trying to get me to fail. "No, you can't. If you do this jump in competition, we're going to have to mark you down." So I changed the jump and I'd land a tougher jump to spite her and I'd win the competition.
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Scott Hamilton, Olympic Hall of Fame

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Scott Hamilton

Olympic Hall of Fame

I went for two years with Ice Capades, and they didn't know how to produce me or anything else. I ended up kind of having to produce myself because they never had to do that before. And then they called me in and they said, "We've just been sold and the gentleman who bought the Ice Capades feels that only a woman will sell tickets and he wishes you well." Basically saying, time for you to find a job somewhere else. And so, once again, the adversity, I had to find a way of reinventing something and I created a show with the help of International Management Group that became, now 10 years later, Stars on Ice. And it's huge, and it's changed figure skating, as the professional ranks and the integrity that I brought -- I don't like bragging, I don't mean to-- to the professional side of the sport like it'd never been done before.
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Sir Edmund Hillary, Conqueror of Mt. Everest

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Sir Edmund Hillary

Conqueror of Mt. Everest

Sir Edmund Hillary: I have very modest abilities. Academically I was very modest. Mediocre perhaps, and I think perhaps physically I did not have a great athletic sense, but I was big and strong. But, I think maybe the only thing in which I was less than modest was in motivation. I really wanted very strongly to do many of these things and once I started I didn't give up all that easily.
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