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…

— 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

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene,…

— Cathy Rigby

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

— Cathy Rigby

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

— 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…

— Cathy Rigby

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was…

— 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…

— Cathy Rigby

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

— Cathy Rigby

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but…

— Cathy Rigby

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear…

— Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

— Cathy Rigby

I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping…

— Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

— 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,…

— Cathy Rigby

I just like to act.

— Cathy Rigby

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

— Cathy Rigby

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

— Cathy Rigby

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

— Cathy Rigby

I have three dogs and a cockatoo.

— Cathy Rigby

There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machine-like. They'll refute this,…

— 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…

— Cathy Rigby

The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community,…

— Cathy Rigby

In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails…

— Cathy Rigby

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

— Cathy Rigby