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At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.

~Dorothy Hamill

Topics: Darkness Depression Feel Leads Me Overwhelmed Times I Feel

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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

Topics: Again Deal Down Everybody Falling Getting Gold Gold Medal Immune Make Medal Skater Times Tough Tough Times Up Used You

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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

Topics: America Bikes Candy Home Like Much Norman Our Penny Pond Rode School Small Small Town Stopped Store Town Very Walked Way Way Home

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I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.

~Dorothy Hamill

Topics: Diana Famous Had Haircut Jennifer Most Princess Think I Think

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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.

~Dorothy Hamill

Topics: Alone Anybody Because Big Could Fantasy Fantasy World Found Get Great Loved Me Near Nobody Old Passionate Rink Shyness Skating Something Talk World

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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

Topics: About Anything Around Brat Cooked Costumes Driven Just Kid Make Meals Parents Plain Really Rink Sit Skate Skating Spoiled Spoiled Brat Think Watch While You Your

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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

Topics: Always Around Because Boy Change Chasing Cut Did Had Hair Hated Just Me Mistaken Mom Off Right She Short Short Hair Suit Tangled Would

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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.

~Dorothy Hamill

Topics: Always Enough Good Had Mother Never Nothing Perfection Relationship Sense Sort Striving Typical

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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.

~Dorothy Hamill

Topics: Always Escape Feel Feel Good Gave Glad Good Had Life Lot Love Made Me Music Other Peaceful Really Skating Something Stresses Think Very I Think

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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.

~Dorothy Hamill

Topics: Became Brother Club Competitive Excelled Family Had Learned Local Membership Polo Races Riverside Sail Sandy Sister Swim Water Where Yacht

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: July 26th, 1956

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