Rodney Hood Quotes

I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.

What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.

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

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9' to 6'8'.

I grew really fast. It's true I went from 5'6" to 6'1" in six months in 8th grade. By the end of 8th grade, I was 6'1". Everyone was freaking out.

My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.

I grew six inches in a year.

I was only 5'10'' until I was a senior in high school.

I was 5ft 3in tall until I was 17. Then I suddenly shot up.

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

Adolescence is like cactus.

Puberty was definitely difficult for me.

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.

The ages two to 15 I spent at different stages of shortness. I didn't become a tall person until I was 16.

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

My awkward stage extended well into high school.

I remember as a teen being able to eat more than my father. I was growing so fast and my body couldn't keep up.

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated.

I've been 6 ft. 2 ins. since I was 13.

Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.

Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

I was very energetic and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.