Barbara Ann Scott Quotes:- Barbara Ann Scott (May 9, 1928 – September 30, 2012) was a Canadian figure skater. She was the 1948 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (1947–1948), and a four-time Canadian national champion (1944–46, 48) in ladies’ singles. Known as “Canada’s Sweetheart,” she is the only Canadian to have won the Olympic ladies’ singles gold medal, the first North American to have won three major titles in one year and the only Canadian to have won the European Championship (1947–48). During her forties, she was rated among the top equestrians in North America. She received many honors and accolades, including being made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991 and a member of the Order of Ontario in 2008.
She began skating at the age of seven with the Minto Skating Club, coached by Otto Gold and Sheldon Galbraith. At age nine, Scott switched from regular schooling to tutoring two-and-a-half hours a day in order to accommodate her seven hours of daily ice training. At the age of ten she became the youngest skater ever to pass the “gold figures test” and at eleven years won her first national junior title. By the age of fifteen, Scott became Canada’s senior national champion, she held the Canadian Figure Skating championship title from 1944-46.
Inspirational Barbara Ann Scott Quotes
“Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.”
Barbara Ann Scott
“The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.”
Barbara Ann Scott
