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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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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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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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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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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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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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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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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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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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When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taght not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
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Friendship first, competition second.
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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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I think I am upsetting the coach.
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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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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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Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
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My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.
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