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

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

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.

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.

I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.

I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.

I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.