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

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

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.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

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

We?re all basketball players, and were all out there on the court, ... We all live together on this earth.

I just started playing basketball and I feel pretty healthy. I feel by the time I return to Houston I will be completely healthy.

Kobe's heart is as strong as his muscles.

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.