Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Quotes

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

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

I grew six inches in a year.

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

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.

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

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

When I was 17, I was about 5'6''.

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.

One year I grew 15 centimeters.

I was always the tallest. I was five foot seven when I finished junior school.

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

I was just a lanky kid, just tall.

I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

I've been 6'4" since I was 12. Goofy is somewhere in the lexicon.

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.

I was about 6-foot-3 my freshman year of high school, and after the summer, I was about 6-foot-8. It all happened so fast. I went into the summer being tall, and when I came back, I was a giant. My knees, man, they were throbbing all the time. I couldn't sit in the car for long stretches; my knees felt like they were going to explode.

As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in this respect: most mammalian species, including apes, progress almost directly from infancy to adulthood.

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood.

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.