Paul Pierce Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I went through puberty late. I was a little, little, tiny kid. I was still growing in college.

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

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.

I didn't hit puberty until I was, like, 17, so I love to talk about that.

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

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

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.

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.

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 not have implants, I just had a growth spurt.

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

I've been six feet tall since the sixth grade.

I was small until I was 15, then grew about 12 inches in a year and built up my strength in the gym.

One year I grew 15 centimeters.

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.