P. J. Tucker Quotes

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

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 grew six inches in a year.

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

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

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

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 ft. 2 ins. since I was 13.

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

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've been six feet tall since the sixth grade.

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.

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 used to get bullied for being so small. I was really short until I was 16, then I grew a foot taller.

I've always had that naturally curvy body since I was 11 years old.

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.

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 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.

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.

Growing up, I was always the small guy.

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