By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
Freshman year, I was 95 pounds and 4 feet 10 inches. So you can imagine what my football uniform looked like - my shoulder pads were bigger than my body!
Even when I was little, I was big.
I was really just too small for football.
I was a full foot taller than any child my age.
Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.
I was small but slow as a college tackle.
Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
What did I do in high school? I grew from 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 2 inches.
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.