(CNN) -- Do not go backstage at Cirque Du Soleil. It will only hurt your self-esteem.

Anthony Gatto says he's been in training since he was 3 years old and performing since he was 8.

In the performers' tent for the touring show "Kooza," there are the chiseled men catapulting their partners onto each other's shoulders from a giant see-saw and the woman doing contortions on children's-sized blocks.

You can only take so much of this before your ego needs normal.

Normal might be that man in the corner, wearing a T-shirt, shorts and sneakers throwing balls in the air. How hard can that be?

Your self-worth will be quickly dashed again when the man picks up a soccer ball, bounces it on his head and jumps rope at the same time. Moments later, he's juggling six or seven orange rings (they move so fast, it looks like a blur) and then does a pirouette -- while all the rings are in the air -- and then catches them on his arm. Watch the juggler in action "

You could say Anthony Gatto went into the family business. But his stepfather wasn't a farmer or a doctor. He was a juggler.

"By the time I was 8, I was entered into a juggling competition, and incidentally, that was the same competition that Patrick Dempsey, the actor, was in," Gatto said. "He used to be a juggler. We competed against each other. I took first, he took second. Now he's a big actor and here I am, juggling."

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. Why don't you want to go backstage?
2. How long has Gatto been training?
3. And performing?
4. What is the name of the event?
5. How many objects was the guy juggling?
6. Was his father a farmer?
7. A physician?
8. How old was he when he competed for the first time?
9. Who took first?
10. Second?
1. It will only hurt self-esteem.
2. Since 3
3. since he was 8.
4. Kooza
5. 6 or 7
6. no
7. no
8. at 8
9. Anthony
10. Patrick Dempsey