Dorothy Hamill Quotes

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.

Dorothy Hamill

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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
- Player
- End
- Doing
I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

Ziyi Zhang
- Value
- Like
- Simplicity
I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

Abigail Breslin
- People
- Think
- Know
You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

Daniel Cormier
- You
- Without
- Basics
Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

Abraham Cowley
- Curiosity
- Devotion
- Less
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Abraham Lincoln
- People
- Life
- Power