Dorothy Hamill Quotes

I loved being at the rink every day and training.

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

I'm an ice skater. I'm all about the glitter.

In figure skating, you have four minutes to do your best. It's your time; you do your best.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

For the off-ice training, I do basic strength training, and for the on-ice training, I practice jumps, spins, steps, and my new long program with my new coach Peter Oppegard.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.

I actually have an ice-skating background. I skated until I was 15, for about eight years. It was hardcore skating for about eight hours a day.

I can do the tricks and I can skate. I have great skating skills and artistry and well-choreographed programs. For me, the biggest obstacle is just bringing it all together.

Michael Weiss and Todd Eldredge and I all competed against each other. Even though I'm older than them, we did cross over a little bit.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

Skating is a very subjective sport where fans have their favorites.

I can't count on both hands how many Grand Prixs I've done and how many world championships I've been to, so I think I've really earned the experience to know that when I step on the ice at nationals and when I step on the ice at the Olympics that I feel completely aware of my environment and what to expect.

Once you land a jump, you put it straight in the program. That's the way I've always been doing it.

Figure skating is such an individual sport, but to have a teammate on the podium with you is unbelievable.

When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through.

There are so many emotions when I step on the ice.

Any chance we have to skate for another Olympic medal, it's amazing.

In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can't decide if you win or not.

I remember my mom let me stay up late and watch Tara Lipinski and Michelle Kwan compete in the 1998 Olympic Games. I made paper medals and wore them the whole night. I didn't start skating until 2000, but I was so inspired by their skating that it was why I wanted to start.

The Grand Prix Final is an opportunity for me to go out and experience new jumping passes in competition. I put in a triple loop-half loop-triple Salchow in the second of the program. It's a very difficult jumping pass so this is a chance for me to try out the new elements and the adjusted jumping layout to get prepared for nationals.

I did have to turn down things in the past, which I was upset about sometimes, but I understood I was part of 'Strictly Come Dancing.'