Dorothy Hamill

People think skating would translate very easily to dancing, but it really doesn't. Dancing is a lot of fun and not as dangerous as being on the ice. ”

If I hadn't been born a woman, I would have certainly been gay. ”

I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston. ”

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. ”

A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you. ”

At times, I feel overwhelmed and my depression leads me into darkness. ”

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through. ”

My parents believed in exposing each of their children to an abundance of varied activities in the hope they would find something they loved. They each had found a passion - Dad with his music and Mom with her horses - so it was natural for them to encourage experimentation. ”

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. ”