Jeremy Lin Quotes

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• Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.

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  Expectations, Wells, Mines

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• You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

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  Winning, Get Better, Looks

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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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  Inspirational, Basketball, Player

  Interview with Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

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• For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

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  Giving Up, Trying, Knocked Down

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• All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

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  Life, God, Christian

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• 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.

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  Kids, Asian, Target

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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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  Inspirational, God, Player

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• My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

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  Basketball, Identity, Christ

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

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  Role Models, Community, Asian

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• I had to learn how to give my best effort to God and trust him with the results. I have to learn to have enough faith to trust in his grace and to trust in his sovereign and perfect plan. I had to submit my will, my desires, my dreams — give it all up to God and say, “Look, I am going to give my best effort, go on the court and play every day for you, and I'm going to let you take care of the rest.

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  Dream, Play, Best Effort

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• God loves me, and that he has the perfect plan for me. His plan will take me through a lots of ups and downs, but if I stay faithful to him that in the end he will work everything for my good. Now when I play basketball, I don't play for anyone else, I only play for God. That's the type of purpose that he gave me, and once he gave me that purpose, is when I found my peace, and once I got my peace, that's when I got my joy.

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  Basketball, Play, Perfect

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

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  Prove

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• My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

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  Giving Up, Careers, Decision

  "Jeremy Lin: The ‘Linsanity’ Interview". Interview With Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. October 29, 2013.

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• If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

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  Looks, Stories, Matter

  "The Jeremy Lin show lands in Toronto to face the Raptors". Press Conference, nationalpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• This is my dream being lived out and I'm so thankful for that.

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  Dream

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

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  Heart, Play, Trying

  "Jeremy Lin, Knicks Benchwarmer, Ignites Linsanity" by Brian Mahoney, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 11, 2012.

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• I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

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  Best Effort, Giving, Earth

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• Every day in practice I have to lead by example. But at the same time, when people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing, you're responsible as a player. You can't rely on the coaches to say everything. The players have to be responsible and take ownership of the team. Every day in practice there are situations where you need to say something and get a message across, but do it in the right way.

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  Team, Player, Practice

  "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul.org Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org. March 12, 2010.

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• And when other people see me play basketball...the way I treat my teammates, the opponents, the refs, that's all a reflection of God's image and God's love so that's the stuff I try to focus on.

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  Basketball, Reflection, Play

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• I've surrendered that to God. I'm not in a battle with what everybody else thinks anymore.

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  Thinking, Battle

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

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  Hate, Loses

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

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  Brother, Games, Play

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• I think one of the most rewarding experiences in life is to see people come to Christ and make lifestyle changes. When that happens, you definitely see God behind it. This year we've seen eight students make first-time decisions for Christ and when I see that, it's a great feeling. I'm really thankful that God is changing somebody, or sometimes he's changing me.

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  Thinking, Eight, Years

  "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org.

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• I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.

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  Christian, School, Sunday

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I've learned how to be open and bold about my faith, but in terms of my influence, I just try to lead in a godly way. What that means for me is to serve them, whether it's just doing the dirty work, like cleaning up sweat on the floor, or deferring to other people, or carrying equipment bags.

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  Dirty, Mean, Godly

  "Jeremy Lin: Taking Harvard basketball to new levels". StudentSoul Interview, studentsoul.intervarsity.org.

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