Dorothy Hamill Quotes

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• I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to…
• Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are…
• I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but…
• My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
• I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.
• There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
• It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics,…
• If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!
• In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but…
• I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
• My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
• My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and…
• I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near…
• I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on…
• You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
• I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter…
• I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.
• When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role…
• I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.
• It took me two years to get an appointment with Mr. Suga who cut my hair for the Olympics. Who knew? I had no idea…

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