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Meet other figures
David Beckham
“I have come to accept that if I have a new haircut it is front page news”
Serena Williams
“I can’t become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I’ll be like, ‘Oh, I’ve won Wimbledon, I’ve won the US Open. Now can I relax.’ But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me”
Cristiano Ronaldo
“I’ve never tried to hide the fact that it is my intention to be the best”
Wayne Rooney
"Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player"
Steven Gerrard
“Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try to please when I play”
Yao Ming
“Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language”
Yao Ming
• At 228.6 centimetres Yao Ming is the tallest player in the National Basketball
Association (NBA) and currently plays for the Houston Rockets in Texas, USA. He is
the 3rd Chinese player in NBA history to play professional Basketball
• In 2002, he joined the Houston Rockets as a center player after five years in Chinese
Basketball Association and has been selected several times to play on All-NBA
teams and the NBA All-Star Games
• Yao purchased his former basketball club, the Shanghai Sharks in 2009. His
purchase was influenced by the club’s financial problems
Born Yao Ming on 12th September 1980 in Shanghai, People’s Republic of
China
