Cathy Rigby

Born :12 December 1952

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Cathy Rigby born on 12th December 1952. As of today 7th May 2025 , we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 24 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

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!

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

I will jump into most any role.

I have three dogs and a cockatoo.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?'