Also, this is the story of somebody who was always told he was too small, that he wasn't good enough to play I think he has a heck of a story to tell, one that cuts across many levels.
Holyfield's original aspiration of a career in American football was dashed when he was told that he was too small.
He chose to be a jockey because he felt he was too small to be a chef, but it's a natural environment to be involved in.
Armitage almost turned his back on the game when he was rejected by France's Under-16 side and told he was too small to ever make it as a professional.
The full-back played for France's under-16 side when his family lived in the country during his teenage years but was then told he was too small and skinny to play international rugby.
He says, for example, that the volume of subprime loans was too small to have caused Armageddon, but he skates over the huge amount of leverage that built up.
"We don't want to inhibit growth by providing our associations parameters that are too small, " he said.
Education Minister John O'Dowd has been told that he is spending too much on keeping small schools open and not enough on disadvantaged pupils.
He has years of development experience, but he says the foreign service is simply too small to produce enough people with the necessary skills.
Mr Blunt likes to portray himself as an aw-shucks small-town boy, but he too grew up in the world of politics.
Mr. Colgan, who says he used to spend "too much time sweating the small stuff, " also learned how to delegate effectively.
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Clearly too he liked innovations in technique that may seem small to us but, in the tradition-bound and slow-moving context of Japanese art and design, were quite significant.
Although he is focused on the small-winery unit, just renamed Jackson Family Farms, there, too, he is ceding more matters to management, which includes his wife, Barbara Banke.
Some Afghan leaders have questioned the size of the force, which say they is too small, but Mr Karzai says he is satisfied with the numbers of troops.
He has made 33 appearances this season, scoring a crucial goal in the Uefa Cup win against Litex Lovech in Bulgaria, and he refutes the suggestion that the Villa squad is too small.
Sudeith's business is too small to support a showroom, so he ekes out a living selling at flea markets in Manhattan and Brooklyn and over his Web site, www.warrug.com, the best source of war rug images on the Internet.
He had to start wearing XXXL shirts because the XXL was too small.
The experiments done into IHDs use samples that are too small, and their results are inconclusive, he suggests.
The tunnel closed in the 1960s because it was too small to allow the line to be electrified, he said.
Just a bit too late, he realises that he is nothing more that a small cog in the machine that delivers oil to American consumers at affordable prices.
Verifying identity comes down to making the probabilistic determination that the risk of the claimant NOT in fact being the one he claims to be is vanishingly small or, at least, too negligible to be worth bothering about.
Two years ago he heard from Hilton hotels that the standard 32-inch range was too small.
He criticizes big companies, claiming they too often use the intellectual property of small firms or inventors without paying compensation.
And it is a discipline not to permit himself the fantasy that he will survive to claim his small patch of ordinary happiness (perhaps too that the husband will not), when fantasising about surviving to next week seems an indulgence.
Though he seems to invest young Benjy with too much wisdom at times, this is a small quibble.
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"In many, many different ways the facility has become a little too small, mainly compared to the other three grand slams, " he said.
He was a stranger, a clean-shaven, middle-aged man, with a nose too small for his face.
While risk-taking can be beneficial in small doses, this character trait can too easily lead someone to treat investing as he or she might treat gambling, with all the potential for gambling that entails.
He said it had previously been thought that infection levels at the time when a mosquito bites were too small to trigger an immune response, which only came once the parasites started multiplying in the liver.
However, he raises the concern that because violence can be very localised, a sample of 33 clusters really might be too small to be representative.
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