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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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Jeremy Lin
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 23
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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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You don't get respect for being an Asian-American basketball player in the U.S.
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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 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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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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If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.
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With pro-gaming that's one of the toughest parts - living game to game.
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Just this whole journey [of life] has been a blessing from God, so for me to be here [on Earth] I'm just taking it one day at a time and really enjoying it.
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I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.
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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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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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I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
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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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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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