70 Quotes by Dorothy Hamill

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.

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.

There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

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.

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

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.