Sentence examples for being the first player from inspiring English sources

To him fell the distinction of being the first player to receive a red card in the opening game of a World Cup since referees started carrying red cards.

Nash is accustomed to high expectations after being the first player taken in the 2002 draft.

-- of being the first player to guard Jordan in his third N.B.A. incarnation.

Holloway said he admires Kaukenas for being the first player at practice and the last to leave.

At the last Ryder Cup in 2010, Watson created history by being the first player to invite the crowd to whoop and holler as he teed off.

They're real competitors, and I think both will want a chance of being the first player to take the FedEx Cup.

The young Comiskey aspired to be a great first baseman like his grandfather and dreamed of being the first player-owner in baseball, according to his cousin Grace Patricia Ryan Samfillippo.

"And being the eighth player picked is an honor.

Jimmy Medranda was the first player to go.

"I was the first player in.

Gaborik was the first player the Wild ever drafted.