The World Motivation
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.
“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.”
— Cathy Rigby · Denial
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 that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.
When you're on the Olympic team at 15, you don't do anything else. There's no normal social development, and your decisions are made for you.
Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.
An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.
Denial has been a way of life for me for many years. I actually believe in denial.
We all do things where we don't care about other people. And we deal with it in whatever ways we can, denial or make excuses.
I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
To live fixated on the future is to engage in psychological denial. It is a form of psychic violence that prepares us to accept the violence needed to ensure the maintenance of imperialist, future-oriented society.
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.