Famous quotes by Jeremy Lin:

"I was only 5-3. Luckily I grew. Maybe I was meant to be a basketball player."

"We relish being the underdog. We love having something to prove, and I think we proved it tonight."

"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."

"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."

"My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!"

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

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

"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 was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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