Yao Ming Quotes

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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.

  Yao Ming

  Motivational, Letting Go, Learning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Sports, Country

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• Friendship first, competition second.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Competition, Firsts

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• There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'

  Yao Ming

  Attitude, Victory, Chinese

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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.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Games, Play

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• Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Sports, Injury

  "Yao Ming: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.

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• Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

  Yao Ming

  Baby, Elephants, Ivory

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• No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Team, Needs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Chinese, Billions

  "Yao plays down hero status", www.cnn.com. September 6, 2003.

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• Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, People, Sometimes

  "Yao Ming: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.

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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.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

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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.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Goal, Balance

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• A good leader must be fair.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Leader, Good Leader

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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?

  Yao Ming

  Embarrassing Questions, Hands, Editors

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

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Distance, Distance Relationship

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every sound in the gym is so fantastic. The screams of the fans, the whistle of the ref, the teammates calling to each other, the sounds of the ball touching the wooden floor, the sneakers touching the floor, and the sounds of the fight, the muscle and the sweat. Oh, and the last one-when the ball goes through the net. Don't laugh at my sensitivity and romanticism - those sounds really attract me.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Fighting, Sneakers

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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.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Team, Different

  "Yao Ming: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.

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

  Yao Ming

  Ivory, Killers, Wells

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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.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, America, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think I am upsetting the coach.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Thinking, Upset

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

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Ideas, Fortune Cookie

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It will take time to adapt, but I think I can handle it.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Thinking, Take Time

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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.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Sports, Jobs

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• My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Speak English, Said

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• One is taller. The other is shorter.

  Yao Ming

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