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.Dorothy Hamill
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 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
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
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
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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