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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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Friendship first, competition second.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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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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Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.
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Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.
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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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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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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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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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If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.
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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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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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No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.
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Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.
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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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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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It's always nice to start the season with a win.
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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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A good leader must be fair.
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It will take time to adapt, but I think I can handle it.
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