Yao Ming Quotes

I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.

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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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  • Different
  • Culture
  • Food

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

  

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  • Good
  • Day
  • Positive

• 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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  • Game
  • Action
  • Basketball

• A good leader must be fair.

  

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  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• 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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  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• 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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  • Job
  • Fun
  • Professional

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

  

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  • Distance
  • Improving

• 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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  • Stop
  • Perfect
  • Language

• 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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  • Different
  • Team
  • Rest

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

  

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  • Important
  • School
  • High

• 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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  • America
  • Culture
  • Learning

• Endangered species are our friends.

  

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  • Friends
  • Species
  • Endangered

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

  

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  • Time
  • Team
  • Old

• Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

  

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  • Great
  • Culture
  • Know

• 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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  • Up
  • Game
  • Attention

• 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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  • Happy
  • Famous
  • Basketball

• 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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  • People
  • Player
  • Basketball

• 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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  • Life
  • Great
  • Balance

• 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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  • Work
  • Friends
  • Respect

• The NBA is a big family, and I think of all these rookies as my brothers. I still believe I am blue collar among the All-Stars.

  

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  • Believe
  • Family
  • Blue

• 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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  • Hand

• 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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  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.

  

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  • World
  • Dream

• 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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