Sentence examples for virtues of playing from inspiring English sources

But later, Alex Rodriguez talked about the virtues of playing small ball.

Before the Knicks gave their recruiting pitch to Stoudemire, a Heat contingent that included the team's president, Pat Riley, sat down with him in Los Angeles and preached the virtues of playing in Miami.

Mara, 87, was raised in a sports culture defined by the sportswriter Grantland Rice, who preached the virtues of playing the game: It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.

Coach Chip Kelly, then an offensive coordinator for the Ducks, started visiting Pryor twice a week at his home in western Pennsylvania, promoting the virtues of playing in Oregon's spread-option offense and the benefits of the program's cozy relationship with Nike.

While Williams is not beyond resorting to the unlovely lingo of "hybridity," it is nevertheless one of the virtues of "Playing the Race Card" that she mainly dispenses with the cant and silliness that tangles much academic talk about racial matters.

"When I joined Liverpool he would drive me to and from my hotel and tell me all the virtues of playing for the club".

The Giants, by virtue of playing on Thursday, have extra time to sort their woes.

The first is up-to-date by virtue of playing in the 19th-century way.

In the presentation to potential investors, Green features a quote from Barcelona President Sandro Rosell highlighting the virtue of playing European rivals on weekends.

Just by virtue of playing nine rough years in the league, for him to get that close, he deserves it anyway.

But the Knicks — with the same S.R.S. rating as Memphis — had a 28.9 percent chance of reaching the finals and a 7.5 percent chance of winning the championship, mainly by virtue of playing in a weaker conference.