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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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Jeremy Lin
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 23
Basketball Player
LA
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Jeremy Shu-How Lin
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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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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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You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.
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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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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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It's really important to me to go to church, which is sometimes tough when I get back from road trips late on Saturday night, but I try to make it a priority to go every week.
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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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You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.
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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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This is my dream being lived out and I'm so thankful for that.
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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 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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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 love eating junk food. I'm a huge snacker, chips and candy.
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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.
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I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
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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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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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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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