Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.

Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success and so were the Celtics. So after awhile it became part of people's sports lore...

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.

You play with your soul as well as your body.

Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.

I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'