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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

Topics: Always Better Done Every Every Time Flaws Go Ice Must Out Should Slight Something Things Think Time Work You

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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

Topics: Backwards Help How Learn Left Me My Own Off Own Skate Wanted

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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.

~Dorothy Hamill

Topics: Felt Fit Little Often Sister Though Three Youngest

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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.

~Dorothy Hamill

Topics: Best Could Did Knew Lot Money Never Parents Really

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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

Topics: Brother Earn Full Full Time Getting Got Had Ice Income Lessons Mom Mother Needed Point Really She Skating Started Stopped Time Until Where Working

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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

Topics: Could Daughter Get Going Hated Love Me Mother Now Read Reading Remember Same Same Thing Thing Through I Love

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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

Topics: Anything Could Enjoyed Except Fact Here Interested Kids Me Miss Really Saw See Some Think Week Would I Think

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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

Topics: Backward Backwards Direction Going Group Guess How Just Just Kind Kind Learned Lesson Number Really Right Right Direction Six Skating Then Think Turn I Think

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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

Topics: Competition Competitions Ever First Olympics Peggy Remember Seeing Skating Television Were Won

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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.

~Dorothy Hamill

Topics: Around Boards Concept Days Had Ice Judges Just Little People Person See Skating Stand Those Were Would You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Athlete

Born: July 26th, 1956

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