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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
Basketball
Sports
Teach
Injuries
Quick
Injury
Slow

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