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" 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
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" 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. "
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Environment
Dancing
Me
" In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself. "
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Loved
Myself
" 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. "
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Ballet
Shoes
Study
" Money is evil. "
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Evil
Money
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
Way
America
School
" 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. "
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Community
Beautiful
Down
" I used to have terrible tantrums. I was temperamental when I was younger. Actually, what I needed was a swift kick in the pants. What a brat! "
Dorothy Hamill
Younger
Terrible
Pants
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
Hair
Mom
She
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
Always
Love
Falling
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
Love
Know
Competition
" 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. "
Dorothy Hamill
Tough Times
Tough
Falling
" 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
" I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston. "
Dorothy Hamill
Think
Princess
Most
" 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
" My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well. "
Dorothy Hamill
Depression
Family
Mother
" My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight. "
Dorothy Hamill
Tan
Skaters
Sight
" At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness. "
Dorothy Hamill
I Feel
Feel
Depression
" 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
Backwards
Own
My Own
" 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
" 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
Parents
Today
Stay
" 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
Alone
Me
Nobody
" I don't think television really captures the speed and the power of skating. "
Dorothy Hamill
Television
Skating
Power
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Dangerous
Fun
Dancing
" 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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Youngest
Three
Though