Quote

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.

Jeremy Lin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jeremy Lin
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 23
Basketball Player
LA
California
Jeremy Shu-How Lin
Help
Helping
Everything
Play
Hard
Floor
Trying
Team
Make
Winning
Sure

More quotes by Jeremy Lin

Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.
Jeremy Lin
Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
This is my dream being lived out and I'm so thankful for that.
Jeremy Lin
Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.
Jeremy Lin
Image
I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!
Jeremy Lin
Image
I'm a playmaker. I'm always attacking the rim and have somewhat of a reckless style. I try to be everywhere at once.
Jeremy Lin
Image
I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.
Jeremy Lin
Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.
Jeremy Lin
Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.
Jeremy Lin
Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
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.
Jeremy Lin
Image
I love eating junk food. I'm a huge snacker, chips and candy.
Jeremy Lin