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Top 20 Dorothy Hamill Quotes (2025 Update)

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “To be the world’s best, you have to beat the world’s best.”

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

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “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.”

2. “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

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Dorothy Hamill Quote: “I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn’t fit in.”

3. “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

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Dorothy Hamill

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

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

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “You see the fairy tale – four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.”

6. “You see the fairy tale – four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.”

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “I wouldn’t say that there’s ever been an Olympic champion that didn’t deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.”

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

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasnt my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so its not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.”

9. “In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasnt my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so its not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.”

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.”

10. “Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.”

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn’t help me and they went off and left me on my own.”

11. “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

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work. He was good.”

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

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!”

17. “If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!”

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “There were no competitions on television. The first skating competition I ever remember seeing on television was the 1968 Olympics when Peggy Fleming won.”

18. “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

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Dorothy Hamill

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