Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kyle Korver

I do remember my first 3-point attempt. I missed it.

I probably need to hold my emotions in check a little more, but that's just part of my wiring, too.

Diving is cool to watch. Springboard or platform - it doesn't matter.

Midseason trades are hard.

I loved being 36.

You've got to go through some good times and some bad times, and hopefully you're able to recover from the bad times.

It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.

A player senses when a coach loses confidence in him. That, more than anything, can throw a player.

Chicago is an amazing place for sports.

The Bulls are first class in every way: great people, organization, culture, and a great place to play basketball.

Draft night for me - I watched it in my dorm in college. And it started off with just me and a friend, because I knew I probably wasn't going to get picked right away. I thought it was going to be a little later. But, you know, you watch the whole thing. You never know what might happen, so you gotta watch.

You can visualize, and you can try to trick yourself into thinking a certain way. There's all kinds of things you can do to try to get in the right spot mentally. But at the end of the day, to have real confidence, you've got to be doing good at your craft.

I love thinking about mechanics and having your mind agree with the mechanics. Sometimes you can shoot it correctly, but your mind doesn't think that it's right. So it's like, how do you get your mind to trust that that's the right way to shoot it.

If the team is scoring, and I'm on the court, that's as good as me scoring.

If you want to be a great team, you've got to be able to play 48 minutes.

I have strong faith, and I have strong family.

I've played with a couple good shooters, but I've never been on a team where there's been three, four, five, six good shooters. And I've always thought that nothing gets you open more than being surrounded by good shooters.

I watched the Bulls growing up. To be part of an organization like that is great.

Moments can change games; moments can create a run.

I loved college. If I could've gone another year, I'd have gone another year, you know what I mean? Those were some of the best memories of my life.

LeBron carries a certain weight. You feel him all the time. On the court, off the court, in the organization. I don't say 'weight' in a bad way, but his presence is always felt. He is striving for greatness at all times. Because he's such a magnetic personality and such an incredible basketball player, people follow him.

You don't want to be a streaky shooter.

The mental side of sports, it's huge. It's such a massive part of the game.

To have a superstar - he's Allen Iverson - he really took me under his wing and really forced me to shoot the ball and forced me to make plays, and to have him do that for me - and the way he was always in my ear telling me to shoot the ball and supporting me - it's a big deal.

I'll see some random guy and really like how he's locking his wrist when he's shooting or how a guy is catching the ball. It can be a little reminder that that's something I have to think about today.

As a shooter, the one thing you want to be is consistent.

The NBA is a beautiful job in a lot of ways. But for living stability, thinking you're going to be somewhere for a long time, it's not for that.

I only try to talk to people about things I really do use in my shot. If I see something similar and something that will help them, then you try to come to them and say, 'I think I might have something for you. Think about it if you like it.' If they do, and they want to keep talking about it, then I will.

If I see something in somebody, if it's something similar in my shot, I feel like it's the same type of thing in life. People who tell you what to do all the time or have all the answers for you, it's like, 'OK, whatever.' But if you've gone through something in life, you can speak to something a little more.

If there's a loose ball, dive on the floor. If you can take a charge, do that. The playoffs are all about scratching. Whatever it takes.

My parents didn't pay for college because we all got scholarships.

The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.

In Atlanta, we ran a motion offense, so, obviously, I was on the move a lot.

Every game is its own thing in the playoffs. When you're in them long enough, you understand. If a playoff series goes six or seven games, it's like a rollercoaster. Your emotions are so up, then they're so down. 'You can't do anything right! Then everything's going your way!'

You're not going to reinvent yourself in the middle of a playoff series.

Every moment is big in the playoffs.

Do I consider the 2003 Draft class the best ever? Yes, absolutely!

I've never been a break-you-down, one-on-one guy.

I've never been a basketball prodigy. I've always had to work, earn my way. And that's the way I want it to be.

I run around a lot. I shoot a lot of threes. And that's just kind of what I've done since I was really young.

Off-seasons hurt when you lose the last game.

Most guys are either big talkers or big workers.

It's hard to play basketball without a point guard - it's an important position.

That's when I'm at my best: when I'm surrounded by good players.

You don't ever want to be a mechanical basketball player, but as far as technique and things, I like to have certain check points in my shot, certain things that I can count on and think about. It kind of helps me to be consistent.

If you shoot with mechanics where you've got your knees bending in all the way, you're not using your hips properly, you get all of this tendinitis and knee pain.

You can never expect things to happen like they did the last time. You still have to put in the work.

Shooting threes is always going to be what I do best.

I never casually shoot shots, ever. I shoot the same way every time. I shoot the same shots that I'd shoot during the game.

I like doing drills and when coaches take you through drills and stuff, but I don't like counting shots and things like that. I just shoot until I feel good.

I don't shoot shots just to shoot shots. I'm always working in a rhythm, working on mechanics. I've got a checklist of the things I need to do with my form, my legs, my arms, all of my mechanics.

I've never played the jack-it-up kinda game; that's just not who I am.

I've always had a good relationship with superstar players. I don't really demand the ball a lot.

It's hard when you get down. You start pressing a little bit trying to get back in the game.

A lot of guys can shoot two, three, four, five, six, seven, 10 feet behind the 3-point line. A lot of people can do it. It's just, when is it going to be considered a good shot? When are coaches going to encourage you to shoot that shot?

It hasn't always been easy. There's a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.

Well, the LeBron James of the world don't come around very often. That's a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.

You have to buy into what the team is doing and get lost in that process. When you make it about yourself, that's when you can start to press a little bit.

I don't think I ever would have imagined having this career.

I've always tried to set my standards high on a daily basis.