"Everything that I've ever been able to..." - Quote by Scott Hamilton
Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.
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More on Adversity
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
“The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.”
“Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.”
More on Perseverance
“When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don't really understand the complexity of the problem. Then you get into the problem, and you see that it's really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That's sort of the middle, and that's where most people stop... But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem - and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works.”
“Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. Oh! The places you'll go!”
“The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.”