Aleksandar Mitrovic Quotes

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

I grew six inches in a year.

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 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.

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

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

I did not have implants, I just had a growth spurt.

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.

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

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 5-foot-8 when I graduated high school, but then I shot up to 6-foot-4 and got more into playing basketball.

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

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

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.

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

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

One year I grew 15 centimeters.

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.

I was just a lanky kid, just 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.

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.