desmond: You can’t prove yourself one time. You can’t have one good game and everyone be like, ‘He’s the real deal.’ It has to be over and over and over again. It’s funny, people are still saying ‘He’s quicker than he looks’ and I’m like what does that mean? Do I look slow? People are always saying, ‘He’s deceptively quick, deceptively athletic.’ I don’t know if that’s just because I’m Asian or what it is. -Jeremy Lin on the stereotypes Asian-American athletes face

desmond:

You can’t prove yourself one time. You can’t have one good game and everyone be like, ‘He’s the real deal.’ It has to be over and over and over again. It’s funny, people are still saying ‘He’s quicker than he looks’ and I’m like what does that mean? Do I look slow? People are always saying, ‘He’s deceptively quick, deceptively athletic.’ I don’t know if that’s just because I’m Asian or what it is.

-Jeremy Lin on the stereotypes Asian-American athletes face