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

I'm not going to emphasize the sky-hook as much as work with the specific skills of the guys.

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.

The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.