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Jeremy Lin Quotes

People are moved by my story, but they’re only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.

– Jeremy Lin

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

– Jeremy Lin

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

– Jeremy Lin

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.

– Jeremy Lin

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.

– Jeremy Lin

My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was ‘Team Mom’ of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.

– Jeremy Lin

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

– Jeremy Lin

I’m not like the next Michael Jordan, but I’m also not what everyone saw me as before I started playing in the NBA, either.

– Jeremy Lin

I struggle with pride every day, but the one thing that I try to remind myself everyday is that I’m still a sinner no matter how many points/assists/win I get on the court.

– Jeremy Lin

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.

– Jeremy Lin

I’m not playing to prove anything to anybody.

– Jeremy Lin

Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.

– Jeremy Lin

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.

– Jeremy Lin

You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.

– Jeremy Lin

I’m a playmaker. I’m always attacking the rim and have somewhat of a reckless style. I try to be everywhere at once.

– Jeremy Lin

I think I’ve always been a player who’s done better in the second half, who’s done better in the fourth quarter. That’s the fun time to play, when everything you’ve worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.

– Jeremy Lin

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that’s not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

– Jeremy Lin

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.

– Jeremy Lin

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

– Jeremy Lin

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.

– Jeremy Lin

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.

– Jeremy Lin

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

– Jeremy Lin

I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you’re aware and you’re high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you’ll be able to make plays.

– Jeremy Lin

My audience is God.

– Jeremy Lin

When I’m on the court, I try to play with all my emotion and heart.

– Jeremy Lin

I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really.

– Jeremy Lin

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I’m not talking about on the basketball court.

– Jeremy Lin

I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done.

– Jeremy Lin

In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That’s why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.

– Jeremy Lin

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.

– Jeremy Lin

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