Quotes by Dorothy Hamill

"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."

"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."

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

"At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness."

"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."

"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."