Quotes from Yao Ming

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.

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.

A good leader must be fair.

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

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

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.

I don't know who first said it, but this proverb is something I believe: A lion leading a lot of sheep can defeat a sheep leading many lions. The important part is that I must decide when I am a lion and when I must be a sheep. I don't believe you are always one or the other.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

To miss one year is a long time. I've never been in this situation before, and I'm getting as much information as I can about my foot, to see what's the best for me and best for the Rockets.

The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.

Endangered species are our friends.

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

Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.

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.

Friendship first, competition second.