Jeremy Lin Quotes

• With all the media attention, all the love from the fans, I felt I needed to prove myself. Prove that I’m not a marketing tool, I’m not a ploy to improve attendance. Prove I can play in this league. But I’ve surrendered that to God. I’m not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

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• Tim Tebow is one of my biggest inspirations. I actually want to be able to do some of the things that he does in terms of the amount of charity work and the non-profit work, and the way he impacts people off the field. I think that is what is most inspiring to me about him.

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• There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that’s not how I want to do things anymore. I’m thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It’s a fight. But it’s one I’m going to keep fighting.

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• Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian – I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don’t think I’m that type.

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• Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

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• People started saying, ‘Oh you know, he’s quicker than he looks’, and I’m like, ‘What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I’m not really sure what that means.

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• Not sure if that will benefit me or hurt me, but I know I have the skills and am ready to play in the NBA regardless of my ethnicity.

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• My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that’s pretty accurate in some ways.

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• If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.

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• I’ve learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to.

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• I’m very humbled and honored. I’m very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

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• I’m not playing to prove anything to anybody.

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• I’m not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

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• I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.

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• I was shocked cause I didn’t even know that they made my jersey. I didn’t know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, ‘Did they customize that?’ And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must’ve made them overnight or something.

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• I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of ‘what’s going on?’ in my prayers.

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• I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don’t feel my game resembles his though.

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• I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

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• I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

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• I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

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Jeremy Lin (21)

Birth:	23rd August, 1988
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Basketball Player

About

Jeremy Shu-How Lin was born in Torrance, Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an American professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association. He is one of the few Asian Americans in NBA history, and the first American of Chinese or Taiwanese descent to play in the league. He is also known for his public expression of his Christianity. He graduated from Harvard in 2010 with a degree in economics.

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