For photos of a celebrity athlete who is proud of his beard, small soul patch, and connector-less mustache, and isn't trying to grow the mustache long enough to cover the gap to the goatee, just look at recent photos of David Beckham (see the cover of the American magazine Men's Fitness, though I personally don't endorse their worldview of hedonism at the expense of long-term quality in relationships and therefore in society as a whole). You can grow lots of full-set or almost-full-set styles.