Top 40 Jeremy Lin Quotes

I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.

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.

My audience is God.

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.

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.

I’ve always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, ‘I’m not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I’m going to go at him.’ That’s how it’s been my whole life.

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.

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

The change that I never fall into is the, ‘I’m-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.’ The change that I’m hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter – where I put myself in situations that don’t have a huge potential for disaster.

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

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

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.

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

Everyone looks me and says, ‘I’m not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I’m going to go at him.’ That’s how it’s been my whole life.

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

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.

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.

It’s the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that’s an area I need to get more accustomed to.

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

I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I’m not going to do anything that’s extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

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

I’m not playing to prove anything to anybody.

I’m going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.

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.

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.

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

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

I love eating junk food. I’m a huge snacker, chips and candy.

New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston’s slower paced, and there’s more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food.

I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity.

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.

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.

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.

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

I try to focus on what I’m supposed to do, and to do my job the best I can. I kind of let everything happen the way it’s supposed to happen, let everything fall into place the way it should.

My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

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

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.

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.

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