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When the buying stops, the killing can too.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Stops
Buying
Killing

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Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.
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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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Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
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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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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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Endangered species are our friends.
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Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.
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I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.
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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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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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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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Kobe's heart is as strong as his muscles.
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One is taller. The other is shorter.
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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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No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.
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