Sentence examples for to play a position from inspiring English sources

"The hardest part was learning to play a position that had not existed," he said last week.

He said Taylor wanted to play a position that would allow him to score touchdowns, but that his coach back then had put him on the defensive line instead.

Mike Glavine was more than willing to play a position that Piazza had long resisted, getting his first major league start at first base on a night that Piazza made his debut there and Murphy ended his 42-year career as a Mets broadcaster.

And why force your best player, one the Angels hope is a franchise cornerstone for years to come, to play a position he's not as comfortable in?

They'd better teach him to play a position with some comfort level, because right now he needs to be on the field.

"If I have to play a different position to get my place back, so be it," the 20-year-old Bartley told BBC Scotland.

I wasn't able to play a regular position, but I could still be around football".

"Always in football we are all like this, we want to play a specific position.

Rating: 4.5 Stuart Holden: Holden was asked to play a deeper position to lead the transition from defense to attack.

Knowing Crane's love of baseball, it would have galled him that his team had only eight men, forcing him to play a new position, and had lost badly to a lesser team that won the collegiate trophy.

All this for a man who transformed, to a large degree, the concept of shortstop, proving that a big man could be nimble enough to play a demanding position that was usually the province of shorter, springier water bugs.