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Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience.

My life as a professional athlete has allowed me the opportunity to visit and live in many different places and meet many interesting and diverse people.

The world is filled with great sporting events.

I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

Athletes are very cool to me.

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

I'm an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest.