Sentence examples for prepare a player from inspiring English sources

DOES a glamorous career in professional football prepare a player for one of the top government jobs?

Patrick McEnroe, the head of elite player development for the United States Tennis Association, estimates it costs about $150,000£94,00000) to prepare a player for the professional tour, including travel, coaching, conditioning and food.

So severe were the greens at Oakland Hills, he said, that no amount of familiarity could prepare a player for the challenge of extreme pin positions and putting surfaces that firmed up and speeded up during the day.

Ramprakash described Buttler's preparation on this tour as exemplary and compared it to that of an elite athlete but accepted there is a limit to how much simulated match scenarios in the nets can prepare a player, such as the "10-over challenge" during the drawn first Test in Rajkot in which the back-up bowlers Gareth Batty and Jake Ball tested him to stated fields.

In the hotel where Athletic Club Bilbao were preparing, a player glanced out of the window, looked back at his team-mates and said: "Good".

That may not sound like much, but with leg injuries, running the bases is often considered a critical step in preparing a player for baseball activities, which then lead to playing in games.

"All the variable metrics that were taken are given to the coaching staff with the purpose of establishing parameters that contribute to knowing the performance and capacity of a player at a deeper level," Rossi says about her role in preparing a player mentally.

Local fans can follow a team all season long, only to find at a crucial moment that their hearts, souls and ticket money have not been going into a pennant race but to prepare a select few players for what Crash Davis in the movie "Bull Durham" wistfully refers to as "the show".

Gold told Sky Sports News that the club would "start a whole rebuilding programme" and added: "We have to prepare a squad of players that is going to get us back into the Premier League at the first time of asking.

Lay out your exercise clothes the night before, put together a playlist on your iPod or mp3 player, prepare a post-exercise snack or meal ahead of time.

Mark is invited in to help the players prepare a traditional Sunday feast.