Cathy Rigby Quotes

Author Image

Cathy Rigby

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 12, 1952

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

Cathy Rigby

Our athletes are our heroes.

Cathy Rigby

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.

Cathy Rigby

I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.

Cathy Rigby

I just like to act.

Cathy Rigby

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.

Cathy Rigby

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

Cathy Rigby

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

Cathy Rigby

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

Cathy Rigby

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

Cathy Rigby

I have three dogs and a cockatoo.

Cathy Rigby

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

Cathy Rigby

I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.

Cathy Rigby

You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'

Cathy Rigby

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

Cathy Rigby

I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

Cathy Rigby

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

Cathy Rigby

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

Cathy Rigby

When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.

Cathy Rigby

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Cathy Rigby