Vlade Divac Quotes

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

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 17, I was about 5'6''.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.

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.

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

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

I was a shy kid up until the sixth grade, and then I started to let loose.

Growing up takes longer than you think.

I never used to like how big my hands were because I hadn't grown into them yet.

I want my kids to stay kids for as long as they can.

Obviously I had a different sense of humor when I was 13.

Guys like me, we have a different style that makes it hard to break in easily. When I was 18, 19, I felt like I was just a boy, body-wise and mentality-wise. I had to fix everything together.

I've gone through several cycles. When I was little, I was the cute kid with missing teeth and funny one-liners. Then I moved on to be the young guy who wanted to be a grownup.