Dorothy Hamill Quotes

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.

Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

I attended public school in Houston. I took piano lessons for several years, and in high school, I played trombone in the marching band. I remember especially enjoying two seasonal activities: ice skating with the Houston Figure Skating Club in the winter and visiting an aunt and uncle's farm in West Texas in the summer.

I love outdoor winter activities like snow tubing and snowball throwing.

I was born in '57, so during the winters when I was growing up, we were ice skating in people's yards, and school got cancelled sometimes for snow days - I have these good memories.

I am a fan of winter sports.

I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

I helped put in a rink in Cadillac, Michigan, when my wife was very healthy. She helped them put it in and the rink is going full-bore the last time I was there.

My mom always made sure I lived my life as a regular kid.

I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.

Skating can make you feel athletic, graceful, beautiful.

I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes.

I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.

My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.

It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding.

I didn't play basketball because I'd learned how to ice skate.

Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.

I definitely still work on my skating a lot.