Dorothy Hamill Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Dorothy Hamill

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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

I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion
that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal.
- Dorothy Hamill

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 hated to read.
My mother could not get me to read.
I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now.
I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.
- Dorothy Hamill

I was a bratty little sister.
I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.
- Dorothy Hamill

My coach was a great politician, so he did most of the work.
He was good.
- Dorothy Hamill

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.
- Dorothy Hamill

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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

My parents didn't have a lot of money,
but we never knew that.
They really did the best they could.
- 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

They're still considered Olympic eligibles,
so there's never an issue whether they're going to turn pro or not.
When they get to that level, money is never an issue.
They make so much money now.
- 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

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

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to
turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle.
That wasn't really skating backward,
but I guess I was going in the right direction.
- Dorothy Hamill

I don't really think they saw anything in me,
except the fact that I was interested in it.
Some of the kids would miss a week here and miss a week there,
I think they could see that I really enjoyed it.
- Dorothy Hamill

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

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown, also attributed to Einstein

Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.
- Anonymous

I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

In choosing joy, the finish line dissolves
into a different matter altogether.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
- Anne Frank

Falling in love and having a relationship
are two different things.
- Keanu Reeves

To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono

NO ONE is really different;
each of us is actually a member of the human race.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men and women belong to different species and communications
between them is still in its infancy.
- Bill Cosby

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- Jimmy Carter

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

What people say, what people do,
and what they say they do
are entirely different things.
- Margaret Mead

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike

We may have all come on different ships,
but we're in the same boat now.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Identify your assumptions (what you believe).
Question how you feel when you hold those assumptions.
Visualize holding different assumptions.
Ask yourself how it feels to hold a different world-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (attributed)

Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu

We may have different religions, different
languages, different colored skin,
but we all belong to one human race.
- Kofi Annan

We are all different - and we are all one.
Take time to understand, and to appreciate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I want a girl just like good old mom,
who is different in every way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Celebration has many different outfits
but she always wears the same beautiful dancing shoes.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

People sort themselves into groups
of happy people and unhappy people
through two different, but complementary mechanisms,
influence and affinity.
I influence those around me
with my emotional state, either happy or unhappy.
At the same time, I feel an affinity
for others who are like me in some way -
in this case by sharing my emotional outlook on life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey

Suspended between earth and sky,
my humanity draws from both,
my tendrils reach for the energies of each.
Spirit and Ground - equal yet opposite,
the lightness and the solidarity,
the ephemeral and the substantial.
The substantial is no more and no less
than the ephemeral - merely different.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Get up-close-and-personal:
Life looks different when you really get involved.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing,
moving at different speeds.
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James

There is a fine line between perseverance and insanity.
At what point have you tried your best,
and it's time to do something different?
It's a balance - a paradox.
If you get in the habit of giving up
as soon as something gets difficult,
your life won't work,
but if you keep tilting at windmills -
madly trying the same thing again and again,
your life also won't work.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My family comes first.
Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
- Bobby Darin

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
- Donna Brazile

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
- T. S. Eliot

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject
to a good many different ailments,
but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
- Joseph Wood Krutch

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly,
equality is in regarding different things differently.
- Tom Robbins

Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in
a way that's different than you imagine it.
- Alex Winter

The way people in democracies think of the government
as something different from themselves is a real handicap.
And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
- Lewis Mumford

Today is a day to choose a different path.
Enjoy the unknown way - one step at a time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Often, we get stuck on a question
for which we can't find an acceptable answer.
That is a good time to consider asking a different question.
Every question is based on some assumptions -
usually invisible assumptions that we don't see, unless we go looking.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude.
It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
- Louis Aragon

I have a different approach.
I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.
- Nicole Kidman

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers -
six if one went to Harvard.
- Edgar R. Fiedler

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different
from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
- Roland Joffe

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings.
That's art to me.
- Maya Lin

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