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If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.

Yao Ming

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Yao Ming
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 12
Autobiographer
Basketball Player
Entrepreneur
Shanghai
China
Ming Yao
Ivory
Killers
Makes
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Well

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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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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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When the buying stops, the killing can too.
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Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.
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Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.
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It's always nice to start the season with a win.
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There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'
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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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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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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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Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.
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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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