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Endangered species are our friends.

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

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Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.
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Kobe's heart is as strong as his muscles.
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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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The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.
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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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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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It's always nice to start the season with a win.
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Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.
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I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.
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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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Friendship first, competition second.
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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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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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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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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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There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'
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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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When the buying stops, the killing can too.
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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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If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.
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