He played four seasons with London of the Ontario Hockey League.
Four years ago, when his Citicorp investment had already started to pay off, he heard that Four Seasons Hotels Chairman Isadore Sharp needed cash and was looking to sell a chunk of the company.
The basket counted for three of just 25 total points he scored over four seasons, but it meant so much more to him.
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Taylor, 30, did not play any Championship cricket for Hampshire last season, and has played just 24 Championship matches in the four seasons he has been at the Rose Bowl since moving from Sussex.
But, he was elected to the Hall of Fame as soon as he was eligible and he made more in his last four (mediocre) seasons than he did in his first ten combined.
He returned to London as head chef at the Four Seasons, Inn on the Park, where he earned a Michelin, before opening Bistrot Bruno in Soho, which earned The Times Restaurant of the Year in 1993.
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The 24-year-old German, who is the son of former F1 world champion Keke Rosberg, switches from Williams where he has spent the last four seasons.
The team had just finished last in revenue and had the cheapest payroll in the NFL. In the four seasons before he did the deal, the Patriots had posted the worst win-loss record in the NFL, finishing last or second-to-last in their division and racking up only 14 wins against 50 losses.
He then went north of the border in 1999 to Hibernian, where he spent five seasons before moving to Barnsley, where he spent four years.
He went 6-6 in four seasons with Philadelphia and 75-72 in eight seasons with Boston.
He created a two-pronged barrier to entry, as he explains in his autobiography, Four Seasons: The Story of a Business Philosophy.
He is also a big stakeholder in Four Seasons Hotels, TWA, Motorola, Apple Computer and Euro Disney.
In two of his four seasons at Michigan, he had more rushing attempts than he did passing attempts.
He believes the availability of the first four seasons of "Mad Men" in Netflix's streaming library, for instance, helped increase viewership for new episodes on AMC this past spring.
In six seasons with four franchises, he had never averaged more than 6.9 points per game (a career highlight that came in 2008-09 with the pre-Blake Griffin Clippers).
Over the last four seasons in New England, he's proven to be an ideal running back for a pass-oriented offense: sturdy, creative near the goal line (he scored 11 touchdowns this season) and efficient.
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He also owns stakes in Citigroup, Apple and Four Seasons Hotels, among many other companies.
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Except for a Four Seasons Hotel there, however, he decided to give Russia a pass for now.
After four seasons there and one at Nazareth, he coached LeMoyne for nine years.
The Australian had scored two goals at City's ground in the past two seasons and he extended that record with just four minutes gone.
He had been part of the Koh Lanta show for four seasons, assisting candidates who must survive on an uninhabited island and complete a series of challenges.
He has a tough act to follow, as in four seasons under Gordon Strachan Celtic celebrated three SPL titles, a Scottish Cup, two League Cups and two appearances in the Champions League last 16.
For those who believe that silverware is a better metric than individual numbers, you may wish to consider that in eight full seasons at Old Trafford he helped United win four Premier League titles and a Champions League.
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He is a co-owner with Bill Gates of the Four Seasons Hotel management company.
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But in successive seasons he guided a youthful side to top-four finishes in the Scottish Premier League, becoming the first manager to do so since Eddie Turnbull in the 1970s.
Loading his rosters with young players and castoffs who came cheaply and fit the bill on the new stats wave, he got the A's into the playoffs for four straight seasons from 2000 to 2003.
Then he reeled off seven straight winning seasons, capped by the Final Four appearance.
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Chase still has three seasons to run on the four-year contract extension he signed in August 2009.
He's moving into Asia and the Middle East and plans a new Four Seasons Hotel in Moscow.
The former England under-21 goalkeeper spent four seasons at Hull, after starting his career at Liverpool, and he's now looking forward to playing under an Anfield legend.
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