Jeannie Mai Quotes

I've got 99 problems, and most of them are height-related.

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

I'm 5ft 1in and despise being small. People think I'm cute and cuddly, and I'm not.

My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But then I think being six foot by the age of 15 meant that I couldn't help but be noticed, and that was when my physical being felt quite painful - I could not any longer walk into a room without being noticed.

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.

Being short works for me.

I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.

Some athletes aren't small, they're just short.

I was always looking at the ground because I was self-conscious about my height. I had big feet, big hands, and all that.

I've always been the tallest guy in my age group, which always made me go right down in the post.

I have always been short, and most people want to be taller. That's sort of a thing, but I love being short.

In the early stages, when I realized I was going to be probably the shortest player on the teams I was on, it was hard. I felt like girls were getting recruited over me strictly because of their height, and it made me self-conscious.

I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.

My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here?

I'm six foot two. If I need security around me, there's a problem.

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

I am this guy who's four and a half feet tall, but my life doesn't constantly address it.