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Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Teach
Injuries
Quick
Injury
Slow
Basketball
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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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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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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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Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.
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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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I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
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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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The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.
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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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It's always nice to start the season with a win.
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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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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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A good leader must be fair.
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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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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'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.
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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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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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Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.
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