70 Quotes by Dorothy Hamill

If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay.

To be the world’s best, you have to beat the world’s best.

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 was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn’t fit in.

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.

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

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

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn’t help me and they went off and left me on my own.

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.