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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Taller
Shorter

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If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.
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My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.
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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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I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.
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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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Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.
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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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Embarrassed journalists ask me embarrassing questions, and they get embarrassing answers, and then hand out embarrassing stories to the embarrassing editors, who put them to the front pages of newspapers. When is this going to end?
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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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When the buying stops, the killing can too.
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Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.
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I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.
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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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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.
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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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Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
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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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Kobe's heart is as strong as his muscles.
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