Cathy Rigby Quotes

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

Basically, as a leader, I try not to make any mistakes, because there's a lot of people watching even though you don't think so.

Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.

Not every young player is going to succeed at Barca.

I've been yelled at by coaches since I was 12 years old playing AAU basketball.

It's always pressure in sport. It was a lot of pressure since Day 1 in Orlando, and it's going to be always pressure, but I think those pressures make us better.

I became insular because at home there was no space to grow or to evolve, everything was tight and there was no room to breathe. People don't realise how that affects you as a kid. I wasn't allowed to speak, so my expression was football.

Being the front guy is a hard job.

I was one of the youngest world champions in boxing. It is not that I was not prepared for it. I was just so young and it happened so quickly. I had to adapt to it. Live up to the hype. It was hard.

I'm scared of being a one-hit wonder because my second single has set the bar too high.

When you're the older guy, everybody talks about you. When you win, everybody talks about you. When you lose, everybody talks about you.

I've played regularly in a big club at Benfica, where it is not easy and there is a lot of pressure. In those years I learned to be a winner and play under that pressure.

There's always pressure on people's shoulders when it comes to Man United, and it's how you deal with the pressure.

Being the number one seed, you're thinking you don't want to lose in the second round.

It's no secret that the expectations are very high here at Bayern. We are under pressure all the time. But we've often proved we can deal with it.

I'd rather somebody expect a lot out of me than nothing at all.

Playing for the Bulls, playing for big organizations, like Boston, you're going to be judged from Day One. It's part of it. You signed up for it.

We enjoy the expectations people have of us. The higher they are, the more pressure, the better we like it.

I still don't know how to drive. I don't go anywhere, really. My brother drives me. I walk around my neighborhood but I don't go anywhere, nor do I want to.

A woman indeed can't properly be said to choose, all that is allowed her, is to refuse or accept what is offered.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.