When Riquelme finally appeared, Rousselot hardly recognized him: he seemed taller, less blond, and he was wearing glasses.
Where he once was taller than his peers, he stopped growing at 5-foot-5.
But you get the feeling that if he'd had been just that little bit taller, he would have chosen professional baseball instead of the track.
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Berbatov cleverly played in Valencia, whose cross left Rooney with work to do, but not only did he win the aerial battle with the taller Collins, he sent a towering header high beyond Friedel into the top corner.
He was denigrated because of his short stature -- he never grew taller than 4 feet 8 inches because of nephritis, a kidney condition.
Ms Kostova admitted shouting at the patient, but said it would have been difficult for her to manhandle him because he was much taller than her.
He's already taller than his parents, and his mother says that when he is in a rage he has the power of 10 men.
He is at least 5 inches taller than Federer, but when he reached the net after losing the match, he plunged his head into Federer's shoulder, like a little brother conquered on the playground.
But despite Wladimir's superior size - he is about 30lb heavier and four inches taller - Haye is confident he has the skills to see off his opponent.
He was several inches taller than Hadley, though his posture was slouched, his back prematurely rounded.
When Christine protested that this boy wasn't Walter -- her son was three inches taller when he disappeared, he wasn't circumcised, and he knew his own teacher -- the cops bundled her off to the psycho ward.
"You can see it for yourself, " Weaver moaned to a reporter, staring Friday at all the vacant lots, overrun with weeds that are taller than he is, at all the abandoned shells of former homes, many of them still marked with the spray-painted "X" that became the grim symbol of a great American city nearly wiped off the map.
He's a head taller than anybody else and maybe a head smarter, too.
He out-boxed the taller Margarito through the early rounds, frequently landing a series of punches before dancing away from danger.
But at the halfway stage of his first season back in top-flight racing in nine years, Neil Hodgson admits it is proving a much taller order than he expected.
Mr. Samson is sorry that he is slightly less than an inch taller than Napoleon was.
He was a large man, much taller than Wolf Maftzir, and his shoulders were broad and strong, although both men had long arms that reached almost to their knees.
So when Guan gets taller, stronger and longer, he's a surefire Hall of Famer, right?
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The writer was taller and slimmer and possibly stronger than he was.
If you dress well, he says, You feel a little better and walk a little taller all day.
Worse yet, when the taller of the two missed a 5-foot putt, he went on endlessly about how unfair the greens were, even pausing midaddress on the next tee to reiterate: "I still can't believe that thing broke left, " he whined.
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He's been very good previously at reinventing himself but is this a taller order than most?
When he walked down Fifth Avenue with his family his 15-year-old son already is taller than his 5-foot-11 father the people asking him to pose for photos or sign autographs all appeared to be tourists.
Despite this, he famously lost his seat last November to John Thune, a Republican 13 years younger and a good bit taller.
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