Garbine Muguruza Quotes

I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

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 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.

People flash back to pictures of me when I was 12 and say 'Kylie's so different,' but how can I look the same from 12 -18?

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

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

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.

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 don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

For as long as I remember, big men have dominated the NBA.

As I grew into my body, high jump chose me.

I want to prove I'm a great, exciting fighter.

I think playing the 5 is an advantage for me. I'm much quicker than a lot of the other centers in our league.

I'm used to going out amongst giants and being the smallest linebacker.

My height doesn't matter, as I want to keep playing my natural game.

Eleventh grade is when I grew into my body. My athleticism and speed took off.

When I moved to Mississippi, I was playing in high school, and there wasn't a lot of talent around me. I figured out that I wasn't going to be able to get to the bucket a lot anymore.

I've always thought I played at a high level and played at a fast pace.

I feel like I'm a matchup problem, but that's of course because of my height and the height difference at my position sometimes.

I was always smaller than the rest coming up at Coventry, and I developed physically more in the later stages.

I'm someone who has grown physically at a later age, I was always one of the smallest players.

I know that I'm not the fastest or the strongest or the best in the air, so from a very early age, I had to be positionally sound, or I was going to get beat. So you just kind of learn as you grow.

One year I grew 15 centimeters.

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