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
Dorothy Hamill quotes about
competition skating television
There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
home thinking ice-skating
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.
party years skating
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.
activity cold discovered distance eight half ice mom movement physical skating socks stuffed walking within wonderful
Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.
ballet belly button coach lessons needed opposed posture shoes skating study
I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.
gave glad life love music skating
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.
easily people skating translate
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.
thinking numbers wigs
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.
politician coaches
My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.
mom mother brother
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 helping help-me
I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
parent lots-of-money
My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
sports thinking should-have
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.
mother daughter reading
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.