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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Endangered
Basketball
Species
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When the buying stops, the killing can too.
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Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.
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My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.
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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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Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.
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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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Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.
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I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.
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Friendship first, competition second.
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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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If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.
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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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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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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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A good leader must be fair.
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It's always nice to start the season with a win.
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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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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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