Cathy Rigby

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

— Cathy Rigby

#bedroom #i #kids #leave #open

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

#been #grown-up #hours #i #kid

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

#also #because #consumed #date #exactly

It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#hard #reality #really #separate

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

#athlete #else #harder #helped #i

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

— Cathy Rigby

#contract #gold #gold medal #heroes #medal

Our athletes are our heroes. ↗

— Cathy Rigby

#heroes #our

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

— Cathy Rigby

#fountain #like #parents #seeing #show

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

#adventures #also #believe #bittersweet #does

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

#become #denial #gymnastics #much #numbing