Jeremy Lin

“People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm not playing to prove anything to anybody.”

“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.”

“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.”

“People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”