Ruben Loftus-Cheek Quotes

Adolescence is like cactus.

When I tried to hit puberty I swung and I missed.

I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But when I went to high school, I was undersized. I didn't grow. I was behind the whole puberty cycle. I didn't like high school.

I hit a big growth spurt between my 10th and 11th grade years.

At 19, I didn't have a hair on my face. When I was 20, I looked 14.

I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.

I was always tall, but I had a real growth spurt between 12 and 14.

This was middle school, the age of miracles, the time when kids shot up three inches over the summer, when breasts bloomed from nothing, when voices dipped and dove. Our first flaws were emerging, but they were being corrected. Blurry vision could be fixed invisibly with the magic of the contact lens. Crooked teeth were pulled straight with braces. Spotty skin could be chemically cleared. Some girls were turning beautiful. A few boys were growing tall.

My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.

I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.

I remember my first actual intense breakout was when I was 13, and I no clue what to do because I hadn't dealt with anything in that large of a scale ever before.

When I was a freshman, I was 5 feet 9 and totally skinny as a pole. Knock-knees and bad hair. Then, over that summer, I grew up a little bit. Not that I was some super beauty, but at least I didn't look like I was 10 anymore and had a little self-confidence.

Puberty hit me pretty hard. All of a sudden, I woke up, and I had really curly hair.

I used to get bullied for being so small. I was really short until I was 16, then I grew a foot taller.

I'm growing into my manhood body.

I was small until I was 15, then grew about 12 inches in a year and built up my strength in the gym.

I've been the same size since I was 12. They thought I was going to be 7 feet tall. I never grew another inch.

I used to not have any confidence when it came to my body - I developed very late in terms of being a girl!

When you're in your late teens, your hormones work overtime. You fall in love without thinking about the consequences.

I was around 1.60 m or so, and then when I was 17 or 18 I started growing.

Eleventh grade is when I grew into my body. My athleticism and speed took off.

Eventually your boobs grow and you can't run anymore, and that was a really rude awakening.

I think I was one of those kids that, at the age of 13, start filling out a little bit: I was the kid that had the chest, the arms, the calves, especially, with these big legs like an adult.

The puberty train came late to the station for me. I was the shortest kid in my sixth-grade class - they made me pose for the yearbook with the tallest kid for comedic contrast.