Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

- 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

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

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

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

- 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'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.

- Cathy Rigby

I will jump into most any role.

- Cathy Rigby

I just like to act.

- Cathy Rigby

I have three dogs and a cockatoo.

- 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

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

- Cathy Rigby

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

- 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

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

- Cathy Rigby

Our athletes are our heroes.

- Cathy Rigby

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.

- 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

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 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