Sentence examples for full time athlete from inspiring English sources

Even when I started rowing professionally, with lottery money and as a full time athlete, we were still boating from a scout's hut with our boats on scaffolding under a railway bridge.

Are you a full time athlete?

This transition from full-time athlete to N.A.R.P (non-athletic regular person) has forced me to learn a lot about myself, free from definition, as well as the way others perceive non-athletes on campus.

He would like to continue after the Vancouver Games and take another shot as a full-time athlete to see if he can bring home an Olympic medal.

"It was a great example of why it would be much better to be a full-time athlete than a full-time office worker," she said.

But then much has changed in a hurry, even if Watt continues his university studies on a part-time basis and will be taking two courses this semester before becoming a full-time athlete in June.

I get comments such as: "Do you think you could run within 30 seconds of your personal best in an 800m or 1500m race now?'' "Are you going out to win the 5k park run?" "You must have done loads of long runs when you were a full-time athlete".

Last year Tom Payn, one of the UK's fastest marathon runners, was working as a technical sales engineer for a filtration company in Portsmouth, before he decided to quit his job and move to Kenya to become a full-time athlete.

It was everybody's dream, being a full-time athlete, but as soon as the injuries started.

"The plan is to get back to being a full-time athlete by the end of the year," she said.

Being a full-time athlete has been my whole life and I really don't know what direction to go in.