提到当初的NBA“菜鸟”生活，姚明戏称

计算的目的是洞察，而不是数字。

To be human is to be flawed, but it is also to be capable of great change.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world.Let freedom reign!

To be human is to be in the world, and to be in the world is to be in time.

For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow.

心灵最深切关注的一切，只能经由嘴唇吐出的言词讨论。