Yao Ming Quotes

• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

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• A good leader must be fair.

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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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• Endangered species are our friends.

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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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  Tags in Learn, Perfect

• I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

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• I’m getting fat… because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn’t show very much… I’m thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

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• When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It’s different now.

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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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• Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

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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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  Tags in Learn

Yao Ming (11)

Birth:	12th December, 1980
Nationality:	Chinese
Profession:	Basketball Player, Soldier

About

Yao Ming is a retired Chinese professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. At the time of his final season, he was the tallest active player in the NBA, at 2.29 m.

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