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.

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.

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

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.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

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.

Friendship first, competition second.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

Endangered species are our friends.

Great endurance, great strength.

Despise your weakness, not yourself.

He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!

Sometimes you can really serve well and win the match because of the serve. I have the opposite thing now, so it's kind of hard. I can just really play with my forehand and backhand.

I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

Songwritng is what I do.

He lives well who is well hidden.

One accumulates or one gets accumulated.

I do not do my own taxes. It's too many forms. "Here are my 70,000 forms. I have no idea."I would be in jail.