Dorothy Hamill
Dorothy Hamill
Dorothy Stuart Hamillis a retired American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion in ladies' singles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFigure Skater
Date of Birth26 July 1956
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.
At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.
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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.
click mind zone
The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.
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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 models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.
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It was more of a marketing tool to hook you in. If you wanted to continue you needed private lessons. And I was hooked. I loved it.
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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 that it would be popular.
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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.
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My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
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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.
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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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There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
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My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
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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.