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.

Moving to the US was quite a transition for me, to say the least! There were, and still are so many new things to get used to: the language, food, culture, even the style of basketball is different here!

If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.

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

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.

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

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