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It's always nice to start the season with a win.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Seasons
Basketball
Nice
Winning
Start
Always
Season

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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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Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.
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When the buying stops, the killing can too.
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It will take time to adapt, but I think I can handle it.
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Moving to the US was quite a transition for me, to say the least! There were, and still are so many new things to get used to: the language, food, culture, even the style of basketball is different here!
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The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.
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Westerners respect privacy, and they are very competitive in terms of work and personalities. My teammates in China and I can talk about everything. But with my Houston Rockets teammates, even though we're friends, we cannot ask each other about everything.
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Friendship first, competition second.
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One is taller. The other is shorter.
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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.
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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taght not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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To miss one year is a long time. I've never been in this situation before, and I'm getting as much information as I can about my foot, to see what's the best for me and best for the Rockets.
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The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.
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