Dorothy Hamill Love Quotations

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.

I was always falling in and out of love. I was engaged when I was 16 to the first guy I ever dated, but my father told him I was too young.

It was more of a marketing tool to hook you in. If you wanted to continue you needed private lessons. And I was hooked. I loved it.

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.

I didn't know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn't really love competition, but that was the only way to get better. You'd see more talent.