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

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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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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'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.

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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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I'm going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough. by Jeremy Lin

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

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I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.

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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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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 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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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.

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I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.

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I love my family, I love my relatives. One special request I have is for the media back in Taiwan to kind of give them their space because they can't even go to work without being bombarded and people following them.

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My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pre... by Jeremy Lin

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

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From the sense of being an ambassador for Jesus Christ, hopefully, through my story and through all the improbables and the miracles that happened in my life, people are inspired or at least a little bit warmer to the idea of exploring who Jesus is.

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We just turned it up, i can't even think, man. We just played hard. I'm just thankful to God. I've been struggling so much and we lost one the other night that we felt we shouldn't have lost, so to come out here and get this win is a huge boost for us. Now we have to come out and take care of business (Tuesday at Brooklyn).

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We're very happy to play the first ever NBA Global Games in Shenzhen. Thank you for having us, fans, i think I've been able to get a lot of really good shots. Fluidity and motion, as long as I keep working on it, will get even better.

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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.

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When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.

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