Name	Dorothy Hamill (Dorothy Stuart Hamill)
Age	53
Height	5' 3"  (160 cm)
Date of Birth	July 26, 1956
Birthplace	Chicago, Illinois
Star Sign	Leo
Nationality	American
Occupation	Sports Star
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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.

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My brother was very gifted as a student, and my sister was very social. She had all the friends and boyfriends, and I just always felt stupid.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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It was more of a marketing tool to hook you in. If you wanted to continue you needed private lessons. And I was hooked. I loved it.

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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.

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I wouldn`t say that there`s ever been an Olympic champion that didn`t deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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They`re still considered Olympic eligibles, so there`s never an issue whether they`re going to turn pro or not. When they get to that level, money is never an issue. They make so much money now.

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I think I dreamed about competing at the Olympics, maybe hoping to win a gold medal. Not that I ever thought that I would, but I dreamed about it.

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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.

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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.

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