Without saying it, he wants to be the defining player of his generation.
Yaya Touré has been the defining player of New City 1.0, with his bolt-on champion's swagger.
The defining player is off to the N.F.L., and a group of talented juniors appears destined to follow him.
After Meyer said he would address his future at an appropriate time, the senior quarterback Tim Tebow, the Gators' defining player.
The former Red Sox slugger Manny Ramirez, perhaps the franchise's defining player during his seven-year stay here, was suspended 50 games for documentary evidence tying him to H.C.G.
Williams, the defining player of this era and last year's Australian Open champion, is recovering from a second surgery on her foot, which she accidentally sliced open last year.
It is the most significant shirt in football because it represents the game's highest values and, as often as not, has been worn by the defining player of the epoch.
"You can't define players by whether they won or didn't win a championship.
The World Cup can define players' reputations, but the clubs own their contracts.
In January she altered the rotation, defined players' roles, made them run sprints for mistakes and concentrated on teaching life lessons.
