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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Important
Night
Priorities
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Flashy
Games
Order
Thinking
Game Me Anything
Extra
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
God
Life
Blessing
Christian
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You have to be wired a certain way to be a professional basketball player, and the way my body grew, something happened genetically that allowed me to become a lot more explosive.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
Body
Player
Me Body Way
Allowed
Certain Way
Explosive
Genetically
Wired
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New York is fast paced, with enthusiastic fans and lots of media attention. Houston's slower paced, and there's more of a southern culture to the city. But both cities have unbelievable food.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
New York
Cities
Enthusiastic
Houston
Media
Unbelievable
Slower
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And when other people see me play basketball...the way I treat my teammates, the opponents, the refs, that's all a reflection of God's image and God's love so that's the stuff I try to focus on.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Basketball
Play
Reflection
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I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Faster
Lakers
Player
Spurs
Thunder
Workout
Draft
Primarily
Supposedly
Workouts
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Funny
Balance
Bipolar
Perception
Real
Seems
Underdog
Group
Overpaid
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Athletic
Fighting
People
Fight
Fight People Always
Obviously
Quick
Saying
Stereotypes
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You can try to call it coincidence, but at the end of the day, there are 20, 30 things when you combine them all that had to happen at the right time in order for me to be here. That’s why I call it a miracle.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Miracle
Order
The End Of The Day
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Space
Bombarded
Bombarded By
Following
Media
Request
Taiwan
Love Family Work
Love Work Family
Relatives
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I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done better in the fourth quarter. That's the fun time to play, when everything you've worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Fourth
Time Done Always
Boils
Time Better Game
Time Game Fun
Fun Time
Possessions
Quarter
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It's the off-the-court spotlight in terms of having people look at you in terms of analyzing every little thing you do in your life, or having less privacy in your day-to-day activities, that's an area I need to get more accustomed to.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Accustomed
Analyzing
Day To Day
Looks
Needs
People
Privacy
Spotlight
Life Look People
Life Your Look
Activities
Area
Little Thing
Terms
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I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Journey
Cameras
Golden
My Journey
Nba
Agreed
Documentary
Platform
Rookie
Sharing
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Disaster
Fall
Looks
Smarter
Stuff
Wiser
Hoping
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Jesus
Christ
Exploring
Ideas
Inspired
Jesus Christ
Little Bit
People
Life People My Life
Ambassador
Life My Life People
Miracles
Warmer
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Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Faith
Sports
Basketball
Brother
Order
Principles
Stuck
Faith Family Me
Academics
Brothers
Let Us
Raising
Took
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I won't let any of my friends become a fan. To me, you're either a friend or you're a fan. That doesn't mean my friends can't support me, because they all do, but they can't treat me differently than they would treat someone else. None of my friends are in awe of me.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Awe
Support
Fan
Friend
Either
None
Treat
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Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am, my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I love playing basketball and it's my job but at the same time I recognize that I'm a sinner and that's not gonna change regardless of how well I play on the court
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Jobs
Basketball
Who I Am
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Charity
Charity Work
Impact
Inspiration
Thinking
Work Me People
Impacts
Inspirations
Tim
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I'm going to make mistakes, I just have to be able to learn from them as quickly as possible. To learn faster, I watch film of myself and other good point guards, and then breaking down my mistakes and really analyzing them and seeing where I could have made better decisions.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Able
Analyzing
Faster
Film
Made
Seeing
Decisions
Good Myself Where
Mistakes
Good Myself Better
Breaking
Possible
Could
Down
Watch
Guards
Learn
Point
Quickly
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I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Kids
Growing Up
Models
Right Path
Role Models
Thinking
Direction
Guide
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Believe
Perfect
Storm
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Storm
God Faith Believe
Big Part
Orchestrated
Such A Big Part
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My dad was the one who really loved basketball, and he was the one that put the basketball in my hands, and my mom was 'Team Mom' of all my teams. I used to play for three or four teams at once and she would just spend her entire afternoon driving me from practice to practice to practice.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Afternoon
Basketball
Practice
Team
Mom Dad Me
Loved
Entire
Dad Mom Me
Spend
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I've learned how to be open and bold about my faith, but in terms of my influence, I just try to lead in a godly way. What that means for me is to serve them, whether it's just doing the dirty work, like cleaning up sweat on the floor, or deferring to other people, or carrying equipment bags.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Dirty
Godly
Mean
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Attendance
Battle
Fans
Felt
League
Marketing
Media
Needed
Play
Ploy
Prove
Thinking
Love God Myself
Anymore
Everybody Else
Improve
Thinks
Tool
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I was shocked cause I didn't even know that they made my jersey. I didn't know that they made it so fast, so when I saw it I was like, I had to look three times and I was like, 'Did they customize that?' And then I saw a couple of other ones and I was like, ok, they must've made them overnight or something.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Basketball
Couple
Jersey
Saws
Shocked
Overnight
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When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life. I think a lot of people try to segment off, like, 'This is church, so this is God, this is my daily life, this is my job,' but I think true faith is when it manifests itself in every single aspect of your life.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Aspect
Christ
Church
Daily Life
True Faith
Life God Faith
Affects
Daily
Segment
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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.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Aspect
Careers
Fighting
Glory
Surrender
Temptation
Thinking
Dictate
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I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Answers
Bible
Christian
Church
Community
Fellowship
Freshman
Grew
High School
Radical
School
Stories
Sunday
Sunday School
Youth
High
Joined
Supposed
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I think one of the most rewarding experiences in life is to see people come to Christ and make lifestyle changes. When that happens, you definitely see God behind it. This year we've seen eight students make first-time decisions for Christ and when I see that, it's a great feeling. I'm really thankful that God is changing somebody, or sometimes he's changing me.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Eight
Thinking
Years
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I had to learn how to give my best effort to God and trust him with the results. I have to learn to have enough faith to trust in his grace and to trust in his sovereign and perfect plan. I had to submit my will, my desires, my dreams — give it all up to God and say, “Look, I am going to give my best effort, go on the court and play every day for you, and I'm going to let you take care of the rest.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Dream
Best Effort
Play
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Every day in practice I have to lead by example. But at the same time, when people aren't doing what they're supposed to be doing, you're responsible as a player. You can't rely on the coaches to say everything. The players have to be responsible and take ownership of the team. Every day in practice there are situations where you need to say something and get a message across, but do it in the right way.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Player
Practice
Team
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The way you talk to your teammates and push them and the way you treat them is important. There is a fine line between trying to help your teammates and criticizing them. The toughest part for me is how to keep my teammates accountable but at the same time do it in a loving way that doesnt judge or condemn them. It's definitely been a struggle and I'm trying to learn how to lead consciously in a way that honors God.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Honor
Judging
Struggle
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God loves me, and that he has the perfect plan for me. His plan will take me through a lots of ups and downs, but if I stay faithful to him that in the end he will work everything for my good. Now when I play basketball, I don't play for anyone else, I only play for God. That's the type of purpose that he gave me, and once he gave me that purpose, is when I found my peace, and once I got my peace, that's when I got my joy.
Jeremy Lin / Basketball Player
Basketball
Perfect
Play
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