Sentence examples for modest players from inspiring English sources

Haney says Woods tended to like quiet, modest players like Jim Furyk, Steve Stricker, or droll veterans like Fred Couples and Jay Haas.

Q: In so many sports, soccer, basketball, baseball, whatever, it seems that the more modest players have more success as coaches while so many of the stars who get coaching or managing jobs don't seem to have the right temperament.

But then there are the more modest players who get exactly one vote in their one year on the ballot, perhaps because a voter was trying to be funny — each voter can list up to 10 names — or maybe trying to be nice.

Today, it is a relatively more modest player in the world.

José was a modest player for the even more modest local team at this former fishing village.

A: In my opinion, I think a lot of it has to do with being a modest player.

When the chip maker Avago Technologies went public in 2009, it seemed like a modest player in the semiconductor industry with a market value of just $3.5 billion.

This month the club lost the free-agent shortstop Jose Reyes, widely considered its best player, to the Miami Marlins, and its extremely modest player acquisitions in recent weeks suggest the team is not operating like a big-market, marquee team.

However, he maintained, none of the roster moves he has made until now — all of them modest player signings — were influenced by the financial threat confronting the team's owners.

Rabobank, which began life as an agriculture cooperative in the Netherlands in the late 19th century, has become the largest Dutch lender and a modest player on the stage of world finance.

In many ways, it was just another day in the life of a famously modest player who, over the course of a decade and a half, has put his signature on the ninth inning in a way no other pitcher has.