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I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
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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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When the buying stops, the killing can too.
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My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.
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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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It will take time to adapt, but I think I can handle it.
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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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Moving to the US was quite a transition for me, to say the least! There were, and still are so many new things to get used to: the language, food, culture, even the style of basketball is different here!
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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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All of the Chinese people, the Asian people say, Oh Yao Ming, you are all the Chinese, all of Asia's hopes. That's a lot of pressure. I'm just a basketball player.
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Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.
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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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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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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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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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A good leader must be fair.
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There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'
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If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.
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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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One is taller. The other is shorter.
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