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
certainly trying understand
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through.
beating feeling last people somebody understand virtually
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.
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.
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.
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.
sports ice judging
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.
winning champion gold
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
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.
cake four olympics
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.