Dorothy Hamill Quotes
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Dorothy Hamill Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!
My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.
I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
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.
One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.
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.
I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.
If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.
I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.
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.
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
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.