Sentence examples for turned managers from inspiring English sources

He is the only one of the three players turned broadcasters turned managers whose team was not leading its division.

However, despite his success as a coach, as with many great former players turned managers he felt like an impotent bystander on the touchline, once commenting that, "Apart from [the compensation of] working with the young," he said, "it's the most horrible profession that could exist".

Developers turned managers, especially "full-stack" (aka "dilettante") developers like me, often have trouble with this.

Our rottweiler, a TV journalist turned manager turned management consultant by trade, is Tory MP for Epsom and Ewell on the affluent underbelly of south London.

"I'm thinking the worm has turned," Manager Jerry Manuel said.

Then, most dramatically of all, he turned manager, patrolling the technical area bellowing instruction.

Torre's Wayward Southpaw Thesis was immediately dismissed by his fellow catcher turned manager Don Wakamatsu of the Seattle Mariners.

Not to Sean Pelletier, however, a Pentagram fanatic turned manager whose spare time is devoted to his addled client's return to the spotlight.

He famously axed Billy Martin, a legendary player turned manager, no fewer than five times, rehiring him every time except the last (his tyranny came mixed with affection).

Today in the eyes of their schoolmate turned manager, Steve Dagger, that makes them "the bravest band – we put up a flag musically and culturally".

Close behind Trump follows Joe Simpson, former minister turned manager of daughter Jessica Simpson, who has also eagerly and repeatedly gone on the record regarding his daughter's body.