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
I don’t really think they saw anything in me, except the fact that I was interested in it. — Dorothy Hamill
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
I wouldn’t say that there’s ever been an olympic champion that didn’t deserve to win an olympic gold medal. — Dorothy Hamill
My parents didn’t have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could. — Dorothy Hamill
There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember — Dorothy Hamill
In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. — Dorothy Hamill
I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn’t see the judges. — Dorothy Hamill