Olympic Athletes Have To Find A Job

We All Naturally Want To Become Successful... We Also Want To Take Shortcuts. And It's Easy To Do So, But You Can Never Take Away The Effort Of Hard Work And Discipline And Sacrifice.

I Want To Break Into The Acting Industry. It's Something I Have A Great Deal Of Respect For; It's A Passion Of Mine. It's So Amazing, The Differences Between Acting And Being An Athlete, But The One Commonality Is They Both Evoke Emotion In The Viewer. And Those Emotions Are Real. So I Think That's Pretty Cool.

Japan, Not Only A Mega-busy City That Thrives On Electronics And Efficiency, Actually Has An Almost Sacred Appreciation Of Nature. One Must Travel Outside Of Tokyo To Truly Experience The 'old Japan' And More Importantly Feel These Aspects Of Japanese Culture.

When I'm Done Skating, I Guarantee You That I Will Not Look Back And Remember Standing On The Podium. I'm Going To Remember These Days - Being With The Team. Training Alone, In My Basement. Training When Everybody Else Is Sleeping. Doing Things That Nobody Else Is Doing. Digging Down. Seeing What Kind Of Character I Truly Have. I Love That Stuff.

I Have A Scar On My Left Thigh, Kind Of Almost Near My Knee. I Essentially Fell In The 2002 Olympics And When I Hit The Wall - Because Of The Impact - My Right Leg Kind Of Came In At Like A Knife-type Angle And Stabbed My Leg With My Own Skate Blade.