Famous quotes by Jeremy Lin:
"I was only 5-3. Luckily I grew. Maybe I was meant to be a basketball player."
"I felt it was my fault last year for us not winning. My goal and my dream was to bring the team this year to the state-title game. Now we're here and it feels great."
"We relish being the underdog. We love having something to prove, and I think we proved it tonight."
"I've learned that social media and our private lives, you know, our private lives are not so private anymore, so it takes a little bit of getting used to."
"There is so much temptation to hold on to my career even more now. To try to micromanage and dictate every little aspect. But that's not how I want to do things anymore. I'm thinking about how can I trust God more. How can I surrender more? How can I bring him more glory? It's a fight. But it's one I'm going to keep fighting."
"I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody."
"If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers."
"I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do."
"Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God."
"Stuff about me dating Kim Kardashian - I have no idea where that came from and all these other rumors. I don't think I'm that type."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community."
"I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over."
"I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!"
"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."
The Capital Journal
13 Mar 2025
The Capital Journal
13 Mar 2025