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How to use the word sportsman in a Sentence?

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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.

Sachin Tendulkar

added by Dr. Cringe
4 years ago

These are our people, we're shooters, we're hunters, we're outdoorsman, we're sportsman and we love the Second Amendment.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I got a lot of hometown encouragement in 1969 because I was back after playing a lot in America. It's the same as what Fleetwood has been doing and it's always nice to come home and be appreciated by the fans, if you've really got it in you, a player will rise to that. It's like being any top sportsman or actor. Those guys are performers and they perform best in front of their home crowds.

Tony Jacklin

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

Joan Sutherland

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

When the words of a sportsman who has broken the rules several times, and has already been disqualified, carry more weight than ours, then questions arise.

Nikita Kamaev

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Yogi Berra was an American original -- a Hall of Famer and humble veteran; prolific jokester and jovial prophet, he epitomized what it meant to be a sportsman and a citizen, with a big heart, competitive spirit, and a selfless desire to open baseball to everyone, no matter their background. Michelle and I offer our deepest condolences to his family, his friends, and his fans in New York and across the world.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's difficult to deal with that, as a sportsman, you want to finish the game but when you hear that [monkey chants], it breaks you. It's not easy to experience that.

The Manchester City midfielder

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.

Stephen Leacock

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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