A biography for Cathy Rigbyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“It's really hard to separate fantasy from reality.”
“I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.”