Consumed Quote by 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…

— 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, and I'm…

— 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 do well…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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 there's also…

— Cathy Rigby

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

— Cathy Rigby

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

— Cathy Rigby