38 Quotes by 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?'

I will miss it terribly because it's been a fabulous run for me, but there are other things I want to do. It's one of those roles that is so amazingly physically demanding. I would never want to do it halfway. I think it's the best it can be right now, and I don't want it to be anything but that.

The thing I received from Girl Scouts more than anything else was a sense of real teamwork and working for the community, helping others, and it was not competitive. I remember working as a group to achieve a goal or to help the community. There was a great sense of accomplishment in that.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

I have three dogs and a cockatoo.

I will jump into most any role.

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

You're just into it at that point and you're alive on stage and you get away with mischief and good stuff and you know, I don't know many adults who get to do that.

This is so much better than flying on a balance beam or on the uneven bars, where you don't have the fairy dust to keep you up. And it was just such a great sense of freedom.