It is what people notice about him.
The first thing I noticed about him was his eyes.
"I think that's maybe what the fans don't notice about him," Eminger said.
"The first thing you notice about him is that fucking Frankie Howerd face he does.
MIKE BROWN -- The first thing you notice about him is that he looks more like a fullback than a safety.
I must say that I'd never met him before, and when I first met him the one thing I noticed about him was that he needed to gargle with Lavoris.
Yet the first thing you noticed about him was not that unremitting drive but a generosity of spirit, a beautiful openness, that drew people to him and opened their hearts in turn.
That was the first thing people noticed about him, even before the jug ears, the simian upper lip and the habit he had, a disconcerting one, of closing his eyes when he spoke.
"Ramon had a knack — he still has a knack — for getting horses to relax that other jockeys find difficult to ride, which is something I noticed about him from the beginning," Motion said.
"What I noticed about him that day as I was arguing with him was that his eyes started to narrow, almost to wee black beads," Ferguson would later recall.
