Quotes by Dorothy Hamill

About Dorothy Hamill:

Dorothy Stuart Hamill is a retired American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion in ladies' singles and the 1976 World champion.
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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 me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

Dorothy Hamill

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

Dorothy Hamill

I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating.

Dorothy Hamill

Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

Dorothy Hamill

My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.

Dorothy Hamill

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

Dorothy Hamill

I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she...

Dorothy Hamill

It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond.

Dorothy Hamill

My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to e...

Dorothy Hamill

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

Dorothy Hamill

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 relationship.

Dorothy Hamill

I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave me something that made me feel good, and it was music, and it was peaceful, and not a lot of the other stresses of life.

Dorothy Hamill

I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.

Dorothy Hamill

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

Dorothy Hamill

One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.

Dorothy Hamill

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 read now, but I don't remember reading.

Dorothy Hamill

I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.

Dorothy Hamill

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.

Dorothy Hamill

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.

Dorothy Hamill

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

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Author Bio

  • NameDorothy Hamill
  • DescriptionFigure Skater
  • BornJuly 26, 1956
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSportsperson
  • AwardsDaytime Emmy Award