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I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.

Yao Ming

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

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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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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 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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Friendship first, competition second.
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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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It will take time to adapt, but I think I can handle it.
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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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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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I feel that the All-Star game is more like a party because its made up of a lot of elements. However the core of All-Star is still the 48 minute-game and all the fans will pay all attention to the showcase of the players excellent skills. The result of the game is not much of a concern.
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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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It's always nice to start the season with a win.
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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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Endangered species are our friends.
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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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All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes. That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.
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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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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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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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One is taller. The other is shorter.
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I think I am upsetting the coach.
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