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Friendship first, competition second.

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Competition
Basketball
Friendship
Second
Firsts
First

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One is taller. The other is shorter.
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Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.
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Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.
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I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.
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Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.
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A good leader must be fair.
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Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.
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Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.
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I think I am upsetting the coach.
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Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?
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The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.
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If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.
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Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
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No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.
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I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.
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I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.
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I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal ... other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life.
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Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.
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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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