'Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down. ' -Yao Ming
Ming, the towering 7-foot-6 310 pound Chinese-born professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets, knows what he's talking about, having undergone a string of frustrating injuries that have kept him sidelined for a varying number of games between 2005 and 2009. This contrasts sharply with his first three NBA seasons, during which he missed just two games out of 246.