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Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Basketball
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