Top 100 Quotes About Yao Ming
#1. Few players have cast a spell across the game like Yao Ming, before or since.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#2. 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.
Yao Ming
#3. It gets bigger every time you go over. In China, there was Yao Ming stuff everywhere. I'm just fortunate to have a good-looking face to where they recognize me.
Shaquille O'Neal
#4. When I go to China, people call me 'Uncle Mo' because they refer me as Yao Ming's uncle. I'm pleased to be his uncle as long as he listens to me!
Dikembe Mutombo
#5. Yao Ming is the best thing to happen to the NBA in a long time. He is just a beautiful person inside and out. The vision, the creativity, the gentleness of spirit ... he has it all.
Bill Walton
#6. We must not fall into the trap of waiting so long for the big things that we let numerous small chances slip right by us.
Ming-Dao Deng
#7. To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession. I feel that I am very fortunate that I can find a professional job that I really, really love.
Yao Ming
#8. The follower of Tao is always flexible and adaptable to circumstance.
Ming-Dao Deng
#9. Build your life brick upon brick,
Live a life of truth,
And you will look back on a life of truth.
Live a life of fantasy,
And you will look back on delusion.
Ming-Dao Deng
#10. We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.
Ming-Dao Deng
#11. I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.
Yao Ming
#12. I'm just one of the 1.3 billion Chinese.
Yao Ming
#13. I play against a front and a back every night, Ming does not have to do that, Duncan does not have to do that, Garnett doesn't do that. I am the only one that has to do that.
Shaquille O'Neal
#14. The journalists are poking me all the time. It's impossible for me to stop even I want to.
Yao Ming
#15. 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!
Yao Ming
#16. I love everything special or unique. Sometimes I love girly clothes, sometimes I love strong boy looks. You never know what is the next look of Ming.
Ming Xi
#17. No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.
Yao Ming
#18. The Olympic Games is holy. Athletes from around the world, including myself, of course, dream to participate.
Yao Ming
#19. Is there a choice in life? It's always been like this. I am jealous that you have a lot of leisure and free time. You are jealous that I have a lot money.
Yao Ming
#20. If you are what you eat, then you are shaped by what you share as you eat.
Deng Ming-Dao
#21. I like to go to places where you can relax a little after you're done working.
Ming Xi
#22. The real person's breathing reaches down to their heels. The normal person's breathing in the throat
Yang Jwing-Ming
#23. I'm not one of those actresses that's going to feel like I never achieved my dreams and goals and just get disgruntled and hate everything about the business. I've had so much fun.
Ming-Na Wen
#25. 'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.
Ming-Na Wen
#26. All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.
Ming-Dao Deng
#27. Being a sci-fi geek, it was just lovely to be on a show where I pretend I'm in outer space. That's always been my dream: to pretend to be out in space or actually be out in space.
Ming-Na Wen
#28. I narrowed my eyes at it. Ming-de's little gift, I assumed. "You look better in color," I snapped.
He sent me a sultry look over his shoulder. "Really? Most women think I look better in nothing at all.
Karen Chance
#29. If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.
Ming-Dao Deng
#30. Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.
Ming-Dao Deng
#31. I was being chase by half a dozen guys at the time. Didn't have time to stop and admire the craftsmanship. There was a Ming vase there?
I believe so. You smashed it over someone's head, picked up a shard, and stabbed another in the chest with it.
Ah, good times.
Wesley Chu
#32. My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.
Yao Ming
#33. A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.
Ming-Dao Deng
#34. Mulan is so important in Chinese folklore - a fearless girl who cared about her family and country so much that she was willing to join the fight and sacrifice herself.
Ming-Na Wen
#35. I love that synergy between being entertainers and having people respond. There's no greater reward.
Ming-Na Wen
#36. I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself.
Yao Ming
#37. I think I am upsetting the coach.
Yao Ming
#38. You must love the land, my children, and ring it in with your love. For the land is the most precious thing on this island. It is like rain, like the heart of a woman.
Wu Ming-Yi
#39. As a photo-journalist your presence anywhere is as welcome as turd falling into a Ming vase.
Steve Merrick
#40. Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams, you don't feel it's comfortable.
Yao Ming
#41. Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.
Yao Ming
#42. I understand basketball is not my entire life. It's only a part of my life. And there are a lot of other things that interest me a great deal ... other goals to seek, and this is how I have balance in life.
Yao Ming
#43. What I want is the same opportunities as anyone to get a part.
Ming-Na Wen
#44. I find that people who give up trying to change themselves tend to want to change other people.
Brian Ming
#45. Use a mirror in difficult times. You will see both cause and resolution.
Ming-Dao Deng
#46. Recently I keep thinking that this isn't about the survival of a species. It's about why we're never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.
Wu Ming-Yi
#48. When it is time to part, then it is time to part. There should be no regrets. The beauty of marriage is like the fleeting perfection of a snowflake.
Ming-Dao Deng
#49. First of all, I'm not buff enough. I got pushed away from the basket. And even when I didn't, I couldn't get anyone to throw me a pass.
Yao Ming
#50. The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.
Hunter S. Thompson
#51. There's just so much love that goes into home cooking, and I think it will really help the American family overall. I'm hoping to maybe get a cookbook out one day because I've got some great family recipes.
Ming-Na Wen
#52. 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.
Yao Ming
#53. A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.
Ming-Dao Deng
#54. You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.
Ming-Dao Deng
#55. Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.
Okakura Kakuzo
#56. I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.
Yao Ming
#57. Aflame in black ecstasy, orders extinguished:
after death
how will I know my love was true,
this sacrifice not an exercise in vanity?
Phan Ming Yen
#58. Let us be sad; it is feeling that makes us human.
Ming-Dao Deng
#59. I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.
I.M. Pei
#60. Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.
Yao Ming
#61. He pulled her close. Your being with me makes it stop. It's like the Ming bowls - when I touch them and feel them, everything stops. You are the same. That is why I brought you here, to keep you with me, where you can please make ... everything ... stop.
Jennifer Ashley
#62. Ming had no intention of losing access to Vasic's ability. Vasic, however, was loyal to the squad and to Aden. That left a single viable way for Ming to secure the teleporter's abilities. You have the Jax?
Nalini Singh
#63. We cannot allow ourselves to be hobbled by the woes and alienation of our race or nation. It is our responsibility to overcome these, even if we can only succeed in our hearts.
Ming-Dao Deng
#64. When the buying stops, the killing can too.
Yao Ming
#65. Life is a constant series of opportunities. If we don't reach out for things, if we don't take advantage of what comes our way, then we cannot be in harmony with the essential nature of life.
Ming-Dao Deng
#66. It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive.
Ming-Dao Deng
#67. It's always nice to start the season with a win.
Yao Ming
#68. I'm always like, "Maybe I can drive the car. I can still fly the plane!"
Ming-Na Wen
#69. The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?
Ming-Dao Deng
#70. Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.
Yao Ming
#71. I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.
Ming-Na Wen
#72. How can this 'I' be said to have any being other than as a pattern of movement in Heaven and Earth's unfolding union.
Douglas J. Penick
#73. Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.
Ming-Dao Deng
#74. People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.
Ming-Na Wen
#75. Mom takes all the credit for my success. Now Mom says, 'I read your face when you were a baby, and it said you were going to be a star. That's why I named you Ming - because it's all about the sun and the stars and enlightenment.'
Ming-Na Wen
#76. I'm always excited to do the fight scenes.
Ming-Na Wen
#77. It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.
Ming-Dao Deng
#78. When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.
Yao Ming
#79. One is taller. The other is shorter.
Yao Ming
#80. The 'ER' role was not Asian-specific, and my agent knew that I loved the show.
Ming-Na Wen
#81. Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.
Ming-Dao Deng
#82. Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of place as an Asian. And growing up in White America, that's absolutely my experience. And I think that's why I got into acting because I wanted to be anybody else but Asian.
Ming-Na Wen
#83. I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.
Ming-Na Wen
#84. I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.
Chien-Ming Wang
#85. An ancient gnarled tree: Too fibrous for a logger's saw, Too twisted to fit a carpenter's square, Outlasts the whole forest.
Ming-Dao Deng
#86. Even on the road to hell, flowers can make you smile.
Ming-Dao Deng
#87. There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.
Ming-Dao Deng
#88. I love my black hair, but some imes I'd like to be blond, but I don't think it suits Asian girl ... What a pity!
Ming Xi
#89. Self-discipline leads to higher spiritual states only if practiced with under- standing. The clearer the goal, the greater the result.
Ming-Dao Deng
#90. A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant.
Ming-Dao Deng
#91. Cooperation with others. Perception, experience, tenacity. Know when to lead and when to follow.
Ming-Dao Deng
#92. We may be floating on Tao, but there is nothing wrong with steering. If Tao is like a river, it is certainly good to know where the rocks are.
Ming-Dao Deng
#93. Do you want to know how spirituality works? Breathe.
Ming-Dao Deng
#94. America has had to deal with eccentric dictators in the past: Idi Amin, Muammar Qaddafi, Ming the Merciless ... but now the security of the world is threatened by Kim Jong-il, a nerdy, pompadoured, platform shoe-wearer who looks like something you'd put on the end of your child's pencil.
Jon Stewart
#95. Some Warriors look fierce, but are mild. Some seem timid, but are vicious. Look beyond appearances; position yourself for the advantage.
Ming-Dao Deng
#96. That bowl was special because of the blue. It exactly matched your eyes.
Jennifer Ashley
#97. Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.
Ming-Dao Deng
#98. Endangered species are our friends.
Yao Ming
#99. I was hesitant to do 'Mulan II.' For me, I felt like the story that needed to be told, this legendary character of Mulan, was already encompassed in the first movie, and I was worried they would try to create this crazy cartoon character out of this legendary character of China.
Ming-Na Wen
#100. Communicating is a bit of a problem. Playing in New York is great but there are times when I feel a long way from home.
Chien-Ming Wang
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