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Cathy Rigby


American
December 12, 1952
Athlete
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Our athletes are our heroes.


Cathy Rigby
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I just like to act.


Cathy Rigby
Tags: Like Just Act
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Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.


Cathy Rigby
Tags: You Just Want
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Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.


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
Tags: You Your Anything
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
Tags: Work Me Think
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
Tags: You Know Been
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 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
Tags: You Like Always
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
Tags: People Very Going