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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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Jeremy Lin
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 23
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With pro-gaming that's one of the toughest parts - living game to game.
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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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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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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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I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.
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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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You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.
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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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