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.
- Dorothy Hamill Quote

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.
- Dorothy Hamill Quote

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
- Dorothy Hamill Quote

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.
- Dorothy Hamill Quote

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.
- Dorothy Hamill Quote

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.
- Dorothy Hamill Quote

It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.
- Dorothy Hamill Quote

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.
- Dorothy Hamill Quote

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
- Dorothy Hamill Quote

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.
- Dorothy Hamill Quote