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Kobe's heart is as strong as his muscles.

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

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To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession. I feel that I am very fortunate that I can find a professional job that I really, really love.
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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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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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Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
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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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One is taller. The other is shorter.
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I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.
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Friendship first, competition second.
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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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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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Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.
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First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass.
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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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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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No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.
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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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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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There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'
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I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.
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I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.
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