Athletic Quote by Geena Davis

In the early stages, when I realized I was going to be probably the shortest player on the teams I was on, it was…

— Crystal Dunn

With my height in high school, I was really thinking basketball. But I guess I wasn't that good, because my sophomore year I didn't…

— Dean Potter

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…

— Eric Williams

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

— Anonymous

I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and…

— Kyle Chandler

I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second,…

— Jordin Sparks

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults…

— Octavia E. Butler

I had no idea I was going to be this tall. Had I known that, I honestly would have stuck to basketball.

— John Isner

I wasn't tall enough to play basketball. I hit my growth spurt in ninth grade, but I'm 6-5. That's point-guard height.

— Trent Williams

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt…

— Brad Garrett

When I first started playing basketball, my coordination was horrible! I went into high school at 6 feet and left at 6-7 and then…

— Brittney Griner

I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than…

— Katherine Webb