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

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.

A good leader must be fair.

To miss one year is a long time. I've never been in this situation before, and I'm getting as much information as I can about my foot, to see what's the best for me and best for the Rockets.

Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.

Westerners respect privacy, and they are very competitive in terms of work and personalities. My teammates in China and I can talk about everything. But with my Houston Rockets teammates, even though we're friends, we cannot ask each other about everything.

Others are improving very fast, and I'm not improving as fast, and that bothers me.