Cathy Rigby Quotes

I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.

When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.

I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches.

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

I climbed brick facades as a kid. You'd kind of stick your fingers in there.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.

I had no shortage of wild times in my youth.

Children are more restricted than ever when it comes to taking physical risks - one of the ways previous generations built resilience. Thanks to health and safety mania, leapfrog, marbles and conkers are now considered unsafe.

I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.

You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

People want somebody to be a daredevil, even if they're not going to be a daredevil themselves.

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

I've been lucky to have survived balloon trips, boating trips, you know, a lot of rather foolish things in my life, so I was definitely born under a lucky star.

Hey, Amy, did you ever want to, like, get on the conveyor belt and see what happened? Like,'Hey don't mind me, I'm just hanging with cargo'?

Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn't even on.

All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

When I was a child I accidentally made a chemical bomb. I also ate my grandfather's heart pills. I got my stomach pumped for that one. I got over that so by the time I hit my teens I was kind of mild. Now I'm like an old lady who occasionally parties real hard.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.