Q: What do you want to do most right now?
A: (Not even sitting down) I want to get out here.
Q: The focus on you by the press has been more than on Tiger Woods, how do
you comment on
that?
A: Maybe the basketball is bigger than golf. I got lucky for getting this
job.
Q: How do you deal with the media badgering you?
A: To run away as quick as possible.
Q: Whom do you want to see in Atlanta?
A: Whoever in the Hall of Fame.
Q: What are you afraid most here (in Atlanta)?
A: I’m afraid that you guys will hustle me into the rest room.
Q: (Last question) Why both the Chinese and foreign journalists are target
ing on you?
A: (Without any hesitation) Oh well, you guys may need to talk to each oth
er to find out why.
Q: Have you been accustomed to NBA yet? (A question that has been asked a
thousand times)
A: I haven’t been sent to the hospital yet.
Other
A: How do you comment about Shaq’s not being able to have a family visit
by yourinvitation?
Q: Maybe my frig is not big enough.
A: How do you comment that Shaq said he’s gonna treat you with elbow when
you guys are in the game?
Q: I guess there is a lot meat on his elbow so that I won’t feel much pai
n when I get hit.
someone asked him what his plans were when he retired. “After I retire fr
om the N.B.A., I will probably join the mass media, because I have always been
bothered by the mass media,“ he said. “And if I cannot beat them, I will jo
in them.“
Houston Rockets rookie Yao Ming on what he remembers of Krause when the tw
o met last spring: “He ate twice as much as I did.“
From ESPN Insider:
In the postgame(Vs Spurs) interviews, an Asian reporter asks Yao about spe
culation that if his games are televised regularly in China, kids will skip cl
ass to watch them. He sighs and rolls his eyes—the most exasperation he’s ex
pressed at a question all season. “They should put a TV in the classroom,“ h
e says.