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Overwhelmed Quotes
At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness.
Dorothy Hamill
Biography
Author Profession:
Athlete
Nationality:
American
Born:
July 26
, 1956
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Everybody has to deal with tough times. A gold medal doesn't make you immune to that. A skater is used to falling down and getting up again.
Dorothy Hamill
Tough Times
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Tough
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You
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Gold
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Down
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Up
I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.
Dorothy Hamill
Change
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Mom
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Hair
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Me
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Short
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Boy
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.
Dorothy Hamill
Family
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Water
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Brother
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Sister
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Sail
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
Alone
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Loved
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Great
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Me
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World
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Nobody
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.
Dorothy Hamill
Parents
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Think
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You
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Watch
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Sit
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Kid
My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.
Dorothy Hamill
Best
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Parents
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Money
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Never
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Knew
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Lot
I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.
Dorothy Hamill
Think
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Haircut
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Famous
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Princess
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Most
Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.
Dorothy Hamill
Winter
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Brother
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Mom
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Walking
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Cold
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Ice
My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight.
Dorothy Hamill
Ice
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Sight
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Legs
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Tan
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Skaters
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
Good
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Mother
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Relationship
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Perfection
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
Life
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Family
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Beautiful
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Great
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Down
In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasn't my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so it's not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.
Dorothy Hamill
Myself
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Loved
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Teen
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Missed
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Skating
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Up
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
Work
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Time
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Think
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You
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Better
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Flaws
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
Me
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My Own
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Help
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Own
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Learn
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