If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day. Bobby Riggs
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 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
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
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
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
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. 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
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 that fear about people leaving you. 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
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 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