Top 50 Jeremy Lin Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Well, I’m not here to live up to anyone else’s expectations-I’m here to live up to mine.”

— Jeremy Lin

2. “Suffering produces Character, and Character produces Hope, and Hope does not disappoint us.”

— Jeremy Lin

3. “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.”

— Jeremy Lin

4. “I love eating junk food. I’m a huge snacker, chips and candy.”

— Jeremy Lin

5. “Having small group once a week gives me a lot of encouragement and accountability. Even though I go to church, I don’t really know many people there, but my real community is my small group.”

— Jeremy Lin

6. “Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.”

— Jeremy Lin

7. “My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.”

— Jeremy Lin

8. “My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.”

— Jeremy Lin

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “I’ve always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, ‘I’m not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I’m going to go at him.’ That’s how it’s been my whole life.”

— Jeremy Lin

15. “I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I’m not talking about on the basketball court.”

— Jeremy Lin

16. “I would be a pastor. It is something I think about doing when my playing days are over.”

— Jeremy Lin

17. “I just really, really, really hate to lose. Really.”

— Jeremy Lin

18. “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

19. “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

20. “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

21. “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

22. “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

23. “If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.”

— Jeremy Lin

24. “I’m very humbled and honored. I’m very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!”

— Jeremy Lin

25. “I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.”

— Jeremy Lin

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “With pro-gaming that’s one of the toughest parts – living game to game.”

— Jeremy Lin

31. “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

32. “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.”

— Jeremy Lin

33. “If I had a day to myself I would just play video games with my brothers.”

— Jeremy Lin

34. “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

35. “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.”

— Jeremy Lin

36. “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

37. “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.”

— Jeremy Lin

38. “I have an economics degree with a minor in sociology. The reason I have that is because I want to do a ministry in urban areas and help with underprivileged kids.”

— Jeremy Lin

39. “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.”

— Jeremy Lin

40. “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.”

— Jeremy Lin

41. “I was a big Michael Jordan fan growing up. I don’t feel my game resembles his though.”

— Jeremy Lin

42. “I’m not playing to prove anything to anybody.”

— Jeremy Lin

43. “I’m going to be honest, playing in D-League games is tough.”

— Jeremy Lin

44. “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

45. “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

46. “I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done.”

— Jeremy Lin

47. “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

48. “This is my dream being lived out and I’m so thankful for that.”

— Jeremy Lin

49. “Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won’t necessarily help.”

— Jeremy Lin

50. “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