Athlete Quote by Cathy Rigby Download Open image “Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.” — Cathy Rigby ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Athlete Contracts Gold Gold medal Hero Medal Sports
Olympic athletes are a different breed. We're not dealing with million-dollar contracts. We don't do the sport for those deals. We do the sport… — Rulon Gardner Copy Share Image
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We have a heard of gold, and that's what this medal is right here. It's a team that will never give up. — Joseph Hagerty Copy Share Image
Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold. — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
That's the neat thing about the Olympics - so many of these athletes, they don't make a ton of money, they train for four… — Julie Foudy Copy Share Image
Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people. — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors. — Nastia Liukin Copy Share Image
Former Olympians also get paid to make appearances. Many of them won their medals in an era when Olympic success didn't go hand-in-hand with… — Mary Lou Retton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax. — Cathy Rigby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would… — Cathy Rigby Copy Share Image
As a professional athlete and someone who has spent almost his entire life in boxing, not a day goes by when I don't think… — Oscar De La Hoya Copy Share Image
I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping. — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed… — Nigel Mansell Copy Share Image
I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. — Jason Collins Copy Share Image
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
I don't want to say names, but there are certain companies I won't work with because of previous people they've worked with. I don't… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
