Mr Gethin, who was WRU secretary when Sir Tasker was president, said: "He was small in stature, but in every sense a colossus and Wales is a poorer place without him".
He was small to be six years old, but he had the largest knees that Frankie had ever seen, and on one of them there was always a scab or a bandage where he had fallen down and skinned himself.
Holyfield's original aspiration of a career in American football was dashed when he was told that he was too small.
The victory he secured was small, but the defeat he avoided was massive.
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Though he was a small fry, the older Murkumbi was progressive and enlisted his wife, a chemistry grad, to join the family trade in 1970.
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.
Mr Gabriele has complained of mistreatment after his arrest, saying the cell where he was kept for 53 days was so small he could not extend his arms, and the light was kept on permanently.
Soon he was a small designer shipping his designs overseas to get them produced.
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Not surprisingly he was a small man, broad across the shoulders, but also handsome.
"I couldn't really have envisaged his success back then as he was quite small at school, " said Townsend.
Mr Mullen, who is married with a young son, said he had been a huge Queen fan since he was a small boy.
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.
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.
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.
It sounded like self-deprecating humor, but anyone who knew Tony McPeak knew he really did think there was only a small chance he was wrong.
"He was about two metres tall, he was huge, and he had small glasses, " Mr Van Veen recalls.
The problem was his thought process: the lithium he was taking in small doses brought a slower speed to reality.
But 20 years ago he was running a small luxury-goods importer.
The prime minister's plan to protect local breweries by nationalising them as part of an initiative to show he was sensitive to small problems that caused people concern, called "little things that mean a lot".
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He was fitting a small panel at the bottom left-hand side, a pane of bruised blue glass that showed the broken and suffering about to be transformed by light, almost the last piece in the window, when he fell.
From excrement to gold dust, he weighs up the various manifestations of what man thought was small before he had the microscope.
He was working for a small contractor who had seen his business collapse after the housing bubble burst, and now was seeing a significant pickup in his work around this notion.
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He has not been to school since he was seven, he says, his small face a complete blank.
He was told the fireplace in his office was operational, so he started a small fire on the Sunday after the inauguration to see if it vented.
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He said he was sorry -- and this is a very small thing -- but he expressed that he was sorry that my reputation had taken a hit because of my association with him, which I appreciated.
As Mr Haughey arrived for Friday morning's hearing, he was heckled by a small number of banner-waving protestors.
Last week the 63-year-old actor announced he was moving to the small Belgian town of Nechin just over the French border.
Commissioner Bud Selig said he was troubled by the small audiences for the first round of the playoffs, which are broadcast exclusively on cable channels TBS and TNT.
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