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" 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
Mother
Love
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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Love
Falling
" 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. "
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Summer
Winter
Walking
" 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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Hair
Years
Two
" Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks. "
Dorothy Hamill
Community
Beautiful
Down
" 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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Time
Brother
Mom
" I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled. "
Dorothy Hamill
Kid
Parents
You
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
Ballet
Shoes
Study
" I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston. "
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Think
Princess
Most
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
Perfect
Parent
Mother
" Money is evil. "
Dorothy Hamill
Evil
Money
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
Mind
Doing
Focus
" When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine. "
Dorothy Hamill
Thinking
Growing Up
Powerful
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
Going
Life
Perfect
" 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
First
Competition
Television
" At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness. "
Dorothy Hamill
I Feel
Feel
Depression
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
Know
You
Romantic
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
People
Impossible
World
" 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
Group
Direction
Kind
" My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could. "
Dorothy Hamill
Knew
Never
Best
" You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that. "
Dorothy Hamill
Thought
You
Life
" 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. "
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Stand
See
Person
" My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo. "
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Family
Water
Sister
" I had the most incredible time on 'Dancing With the Stars.' It never occurred to me when I took it on that I would physically not be able to do it because that's not in an Olympic competitor's vocabulary! It was the most wonderful environment, such a nurturing environment. "
Dorothy Hamill
Environment
Dancing
Me
" I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship. "
Dorothy Hamill
Good
Relationship
Perfection
" I don't really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there, I think they could see that I really enjoyed it. "
Dorothy Hamill
Here
Me
Week
" I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. "
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Champion
Been
Win
" 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. "
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Music
Peaceful
Think
" I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent. "
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Love
Know
Competition
" My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation. "
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Mom
Passion
Children
" I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. "
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Me
People
Short