(1) During the 1930s he spent time in Spain and Africa and resided in Key West, Florida, where he gained a reputation as a sportsman and athlete.(2) An athlete and sportsman , he played football (as a goalkeeper), skied and was an avid theatregoer, at one time he even considered becoming an actor.(3) Hemingway was a keen sportsman but he was fond of blood sports.(4) During his 16-year career as a professional sportsman , Moran put his BComm from UCD and his accountancy qualification to good use.(5) As a young man, he had striven to prove himself physically as a sportsman .(6) His mother was a piano teacher, his father an official at a mine outside Johannesburg and a keen amateur sportsman (becoming South African marathon champion, no less).(7) A ‘gillie’, by the by, was originally an attendant on a Highland chief, but by the nineteenth century was a sportsman 's attendant.(8) A keen sportsman , he plays tennis and golf, as well as being an enthusiastic canoeist and sailor.(9) Smith also enjoyed the Hurricanes' recent trip to South Africa, it was much better being over there as a sportsman rather than a tourist.(10) A different footballing culture, combined with a couple of ‘incidents’ that the Italians didn't find becoming of a professional sportsman , led to his return to England.(11) It might have been about having a choice between behaving like a sportsman or behaving like a boor and doing the latter because it suited him at the time.(12) Perhaps because he had been a champion sportsman in Europe, he idealised the athletic male body in his early sculptures.(13) Indeed, the interviews are very puffy, never once giving us real insight into the psyche and/or soul of a seasoned professional sportsman .(14) Among the draperies and furniture upholstered in this redundancy of plaids are other tropes of the sportsman 's lodge - chandeliers, racks of antlers, hunting prints framed in plaids.(15) Still, he has a knowing charm, a sportsman 's physique and the gift of the gab.(16) He is now the highest-earning sportsman in the world and is expected to become a billionaire - the first sports person to achieve this - within the next decade.
