Dorothy Hamill is a famous Athlete from USA, he/she is 68 years old and still alive, born July 26, 1956.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac leo, who is known for Ruling, Warmth, Generosity, Faithful, Initiative.
Our collection contains 16 quotes who is written / told by Dorothy.
"There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won"
"I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it"
"My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good"
"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"
"I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own"
"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"
"I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in"
"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"
"My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could"
"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"
"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal"
"They're still considered Olympic eligibles, so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
