My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.
From Dorothy Hamill
I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
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.
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave me something that made me feel good, and it was music, and it was peaceful, and not a lot of the other stresses of life.
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.
I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.
I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.
I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.
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