Dorothy Hamill Quotes

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

    Cake   Would Be   Four  
  • 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.

    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off.

    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasnt my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so its not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.

    Party   Years   Skating  
  • If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!

    Business   Crazy   Ice  
  • I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.

    Sister   Three   Littles  
    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • To be the world's best, you have to beat the world's best.

    World   Beats  
  • 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 the things you must work on.

  • 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 guess I was going in the right direction.

    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • 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 I dreamed about it.

    Winning   Thinking   Gold  
    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • 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, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

  • 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 the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.

    Sports   Ice   People  
    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • 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: Life wasn't 'cake' after gold" by Mike Celzic, www.today.com. October 03, 2007.
  • I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

    Winning   Champion   Gold  
    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
  • 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 it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.

    Sports   Mom   Mother  
    "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.
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Dorothy Hamill

  • Born: July 26, 1956
  • Occupation: Figure Skater