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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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.
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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.
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My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.
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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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A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.
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They're always trying to fix the judging system, (but) it's not the judging system, it's the judges. As long as there is national bias, you'll never be able to get rid of favoritism.
I've made a commitment to concentrate on my career as an entertainer.
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People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice.
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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.