But Kennedy was not trying to breed professional athletes.
They appreciate his incredible ability to groom professional CEOs, a breed almost missing at Infosys now because all along it has had one of the original promoters at the helm.
She views her as part of "an exotic breed" of professional woman, "all dressed like airline hostesses or television anchorwomen, their faces inscrutably cordial".
Her attitude certainly presented a contrast with that of the breed of "professional scousers" who have peppered the media landscape since the 1960s.
There is also a place for a new breed of professional — the health advocate — to step in and help manage the challenges of "the complicated patient".
As Pearce was having an x-ray for suspected ligament damage, his manager was describing him as more than a model professional, indeed a rare breed of modern footballer and one of unusual physical courage.
When automatic self-tracking of all your activities becomes the normal thing to do, a new breed of professional analysts will arise to help you make sense of the data.
Following a week in which Jimmy Armfield celebrated his 80th birthday and Francesco Totti scored his 300th goal for Roma, it seems as good a time as any to acknowledge the increasingly rare breed of professional that is the one-club footballer.
She's a science assistant, a relatively new breed of professional that has quickly become essential to the smooth operations of the $5.5 billion agency.
Bollywood a name several Indian actors shun for that implication that it's simply the Eastern sister of Hollywood has also discovered the magic of aggressive marketing as it reaches out to wealthy nonresident Indian audiences in the West, through a new breed of professional film companies.
