Scott Hamilton

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

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

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.