Sentence examples similar to pretend athletes from inspiring English sources

I'm one of those pretend-athletes.

Most big league athletes pretend that they're oblivious to ownership, that owners own and players play.

Other sports shun their brash athletes, or pretend to; there are always coaches and broadcasters and fellow-athletes eager to adduce some hazy ideal of good sportsmanship.

"I do not pretend to be an élite athlete," he said.

Consider minimum ages or guidelines for sports such as basketball, hockey, and ice skating. 5. Pretend you are a young athlete training at the level of Alan Watts.

But don't pretend to forget how black collegiate athletes are coddled in this country; how their "indiscretions" with white coeds are handled administratively, often with the intervention of a helpful white coach, faster than you can say Tom Osborne.

The cabal allowed "student" athletes to take classes (or pretend to do so), to boost their grade point averages to a 2.0 (barely a C), and keep them eligible in their respective sports.

Rotich is alleged to have asked reporters pretending to be a team of British athletes for £10,000 to get tip‑offs about tests, as well as offering advice on how to avoid detection.

In the past, Ronald Reagan -- who only pretended to be an athlete in Hollywood and spent the war making military training films, yet he successfully branded George Herbert Walker Bush -- a decorated Navy pilot and Yale's baseball captain -- as a "wimp".

Don't pretend you don't know which sports have the most attractive athletes.

After a drunken night in Brazil, the US swimmer said he and three other athletes had been robbed at gunpoint by men pretending to be police.