Sentence examples for diminished skills from inspiring English sources

Age and diminished skills led to losses in recent years to Felix Trinidad, Shane Mosley, Bernard Hopkins and Floyd Mayweather Jr. De La Hoya won his last title in May 2006, beating Ricardo Mayorga in six rounds for the W.B.C. super-welterweight title.

At age 39, and after 17 seasons, with sore knees and diminished skills, he has played fewer and fewer minutes.

By outdueling a legend in Chavez, even one with diminished skills, Tszyu may receive the recognition that has eluded him.

Tennis is not like team sports, where aging outfielders become designated hitters, whose diminished skills can be hidden or disguised.

In exchange for Ewing, the Knicks received a package built around Glen Rice and Longley, two aging veterans with diminished skills and huge salaries.

Of late, a touch of whininess has crept into his answers to questions about his diminished skills, a function of having turned 37.

He retired from World Cup racing rather than continue with diminishing skills.

(Two-on-two has lost its charm over the many years — too strenuous, and too complicit in exposing one's diminishing skills).

Arenas is a prime candidate because of his bad knees, his diminishing skills and his reputation for causing locker-room friction.

It's certainly likely that teams weighed his fiery outspokenness against a potentially diminishing skill set.

Escaping poverty in the Dominican Republic as an iconic pitcher has not diminished those skills.