Jeremy Lin Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  School, Sleep, Night

  "True or false with Lin and Harden". Interview with Pablo S. Torre, www.espn.com. November 28, 2012.

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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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  Kids, Thinking, Way

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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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  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  Interview With Steve Serby, nypost.com. February 18, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Fall, Looks, Stuff

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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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  Prayer, Two, Three

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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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  Mean, People, Doe

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• Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.

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  Nba, Trying, Degrees

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• 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.

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  New York, Media, Cities

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

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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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  Support, Community, Asian

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

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Order, Games

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• It seems like everybody's perception of me is very bipolar. To one group, it's overpaid, overrated; to another group, it's underpaid, underrated, underdog. It's funny to me because there's no real balance.

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  Real, Bipolar, Perception

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• 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.

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  Basketball, Player, Body

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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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  Workout, Player, Spurs

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

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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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  Thinking, Media, Play

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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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  Hurt, Ethnicity, Nba

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

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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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  Reading, Writing, Class

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

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• 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.

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  Years, Spain, Done

  "Rocket Man" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. October 16, 2012.

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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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  People, Taiwan, Needs

  "Lin seeks privacy for Taiwan relatives" by Elizabeth Yuan, www.cnn.com. February 20, 2012.

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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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  Thinking, Would Be, Pastor

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

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• With pro-gaming that's one of the toughest parts - living game to game.

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  Playing Games, Games, Gaming

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

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  Games, League, Tough

  "Rocket Man" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. October 16, 2012.

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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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  Nba, Next, Jordan

  "Rocket Man" by Will Leitch, www.gq.com. October 16, 2012.

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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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  Basketball, Couple, Saws

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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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  Media, Bombarded By, Space

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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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  People, Needs, Looks

  "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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