Rodney Hood Quotes

People are so surprised about how small I am compared to other players.

You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

At 10, I could walk down the street and see over everybody's head. I don't remember being little or having to look up at people. I think I was born 5 feet 10. It's not that I felt especially tall. I was wondering when everybody else was going to catch up.

I'm 6'2 and not a small person.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

I mean, I'm 6-11, and I'm pretty athletic, I think.

If someone had told me at fourteen that I'd be six-ten, I might have stuck with basketball, in all seriousness.

I've always been the tallest; I didn't shoot up. That's who I am.

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

I am proud of my height.

It's fun down there to actually go up against a 7-footer and you know you're undersized and you know people are telling you that you can't guard this guy, you can't do that. I take it as a challenge.

I have always been the tallest guy in my class, going back to first grade. Announcers have always had fun with it.

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

It's cool to be able to dunk. I'm pretty tall and pretty long. My body's probably built more for basketball than for golf.

I was taller than most of the kids. When I started playing basketball, my coach put me at point guard. Europeans do that sometimes.

Yes, Ronaldinho is bigger than me. Exactly 4 centimeters.

Certain men get intimidated and insecure around me. They can never get over the fact that I am taller than they are, but it really shouldn't matter.

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

My mom used to be a basketball player so I was really into it. Plus of course my height made it easier for me to decide what kind of sport I wanted to play, so at the age of nine I went to my first basketball practice.

I had no idea I was going to be this tall. Had I known that, I honestly would have stuck to basketball.

It helps me get rebounds, I can see over the defense pretty easily, and yeah, I thank God he blessed me with height.

I wasn't always tall. I was shorter so my stepdad had me at point guard so I learned those skills.

I'm a lot bigger than Faber, I'm pretty sure I'm a lot stronger than Faber and I'm pretty sure I'm a lot faster than Faber.

Height doesn't matter. You see guys like Tyrod Taylor, Brees, Russell Wilson: they've proven that it doesn't matter.

I'm like LeBron, man. I'm like a smaller LeBron. That's why I'm not in the NBA. If I had about five, six more inches, I'd be in the league.