John Cena Quotes

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

Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.

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 started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.

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

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

I've always had trouble keeping weight on, or putting weight on as well.

I gained weight, and that started a 32-year struggle with weight and exercise and body image problems.

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.

I always had a weight issue since I was a young kid.

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

It's hard for me to put on weight.

By the time I was 15 and I stepped in the high school gym, I was just stronger than everybody.

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 was a weed. Such a skinny little weed. I just couldn't put on weight; I couldn't put on muscle. I was the oddest shape. And I thought that was it: that's how I'd look for the rest of my life. And I'd beat myself up about it so much. But you change an awful lot. You're 16. Your body's not even halfway to what it'll end up being.

I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy - and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!

I grew six inches in a year.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism.

I went from 220 pounds that I cut down for 'Moneyball' to almost 270-280 pounds for 'Ten Year.'

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

I have always had a problem with my weight.

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!