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

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Jeremy Lin
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 23
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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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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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You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.
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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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I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.
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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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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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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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My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.
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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 just try to make sure that when I get there on the floor, I play as hard as I can and try to do everything I can to help the team win.
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And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight.
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I'm a playmaker. I'm always attacking the rim and have somewhat of a reckless style. I try to be everywhere at once.
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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.
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I love eating junk food. I'm a huge snacker, chips and candy.
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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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With pro-gaming that's one of the toughest parts - living game to game.
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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.
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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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