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" I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal. "
Dorothy Hamill
Champion
Been
Win
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" I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've made a commitment to concentrate on my career as an entertainer. "
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" 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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" 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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" My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in. "
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" 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. "
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Dancing
Me
" I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating. "
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Skating
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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
" 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. "
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Today
Stay
" My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight. "
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Tan
Skaters
Sight
" 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. "
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Mother
Love
Now
" 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
" My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well. "
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Depression
Family
Mother
" It was very much like Norman Rockwell: small town America. We walked to school or rode our bikes, stopped at the penny candy store on the way home from school, skated on the pond. "
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America
School
" 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. "
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Me
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" 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. "
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Relationship
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" 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. "
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Me
Nobody
" I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me. "
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Mom
She
" I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own. "
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Own
My Own
" 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 never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it. "
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Short
" My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good. "
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Good
Great