Sentence examples for professional himself from inspiring English sources

A former cycling professional himself, Bruyneel, pictured, managed all of Armstrong's Tour-winning teams – making him the most successful directeur sportif in cycling history.

Budge captured both Wimbledon and the United States Nationals in 1937, received the Sullivan award as the nation's top amateur athlete, and procrastinated about turning professional himself to help his country keep its Davis Cup championship in 1938.

Redfoo has a genuine understanding of tennis, having once dreamed of a career as a professional himself.

Although the idea of becoming a professional himself was not on his mind at any time, among those with whom Einstein played chamber music were a few professionals, and he performed for private audiences and friends.

He was a professional boxer himself until he was beaten to a pulp one particularly bad evening.

The first was his father, Phil, who was his first coach and had once been a professional golfer himself.

His father worked with the heavyweight Gerry Cooney, and the younger Winters was a professional fighter himself, tutored by Duva.

"It's changed since then," says John Herety, manager of the top home-based squad Rapha-Condor-JLT and a former national professional champion himself.

Mercer was never a professional skater himself (he started out as a lighting designer), so what is it that makes him so committed?

Mark Barry, a "competitive intelligence professional", disguises himself as a headhunter to extract information for his corporate clients from rivals, while telling the camera that he would never behave so deceitfully in his private life.

Dr. Noice, 73, and her husband, Tony Noice, 79, (a theater professor at Elmhurst and a longtime professional actor himself), have been conducting research on acting and its cognitive effects since the 1990s.