Yao Ming
Yao Ming
Yao Mingis a Chinese retired professional basketball player who played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Associationand the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association. He was selected to start for the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star Game eight times, and was named to the All-NBA Team five times. At the time of his final season, he was the tallest active player in the NBA, at 2.29 m. He is also the only player outside of the US...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth12 September 1980
CityShanghai, China
CountryChina
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.
I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.
Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.
The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.
Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.
I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.
Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.
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?
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.
There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'
Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.
A good leader must be fair.
If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well,