Cathy Rigby (Cathleen Roxanne Rigby) Quotes

Our athletes are our heroes.

Cathy Rigby

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• Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Media
  • Destroy
  • Heroes

• So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Me
  • Everything
  • Close

• Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Space
  • Heroes

• In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • War
  • Heroes
  • Soldiers

• I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

  

  Barry Pepper
  • Heroes
  • Identify
  • Clint

• I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

  

  Nancy Greene
  • Women
  • Performances
  • Athletes

• I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Moment

• I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Day
  • Heroes
  • Did

• Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Family
  • Two
  • Heroes

• My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Forest
  • Heroes
  • Harris

• And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

  

  Adam Brody
  • World
  • Movie
  • Guy

• Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Virtue
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• I'm constantly watching my weight for my job, and I've trained so hard this year to be ready for this season-more rigorously than ever - but people who tune in to Formula One have no comprehension of what we have to do to be fit. It's so physical. This year, the car is way faster than when you came to the race. And the physicality has gone up quite a lot, at least 20 to 30 percent. People don't see that. They don't see us as athletes. They just see us driving.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Up
  • Job

• Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Value
  • Military
  • Heroes

• Heroes are made in the hour of defeat.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Defeat
  • Heroes

• Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Long
  • Live
  • Heroes

• A lot of people still don't realize that, before Rascal Flatts, I was in a Christian band for four or five years, and I had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest pop musicians and producers in L.A. I learned a lot from Peter Wolf; he was one of my heroes growing up in the '80s. He was a producer of a lot legendary pop music.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Opportunity
  • Musicians
  • Heroes

• The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes.

  

  Eddie George
  • Money
  • Building
  • Athletes

• Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• As a husband, your love for your wife has a specific goal: her holiness.

  

  Winston Smith
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Goal

• I feel good when my children are fine.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Children
  • Fine
  • I Feel Good

• I've done movies that have mostly feminine characters and elements, and I think that both 'Heathers' and 'Truth About Cats and Dogs' are, in their own weird ways - they're different ends of the girl movie spectrum, but they're very much centered around the female characters, and I like those movies, and I like working with good actresses.

  

  Michael Lehmann
  • Different
  • Characters
  • Elements

• Our athletes are our heroes.

  

  Cathy Rigby
  • Heroes
  • Athletes