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Cathy Rigby [1952-0] American

Rank: 104
Athlete, Actress

Cathleen Roxanne Rigby, known as Cathy Rigby, is an actress, speaker, and former artistic gymnast. Her performance in the 1968 Summer Olympics helped to popularize the sport of gymnastics in the United States.

Failure, Sports

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Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.		101
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.	Sports	102
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.		103
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.		104
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.		105
I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.		106
Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.		107
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.		108
It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.		109
Our athletes are our heroes.		110
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!		111
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.	Failure	112
I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.		113
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.		114
I have three dogs and a cockatoo.		115
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.		116
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.		117
An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.		118
Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.		119
I just like to act.		120
I will jump into most any role.		121
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?'		122
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.		123
You see your peers weighing 80 pounds and you think, 'Oh, my God, I've got to be 80 pounds or I'll fail.'		124

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