Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kyle Korver - Page 2

It's easy on teams when you have got superstars. I mean, they're really good. And you give them the ball, and you say, 'Make a play.'

It's very rare to find a basketball coach that gets both: that gets the Xs and Os and also gets life.

I never really modeled my game after anybody.

It's frustrating when teams try to take me out. But there's a lot of other ways to win besides shooting.

I've played for some really good coaches, been on some really good teams. I learned a lot.

I would say moving to Iowa turned out to be the best thing for my basketball career.

I do better in life when my world seems a little smaller.

It's good to always try to learn and try to grow.

When I first came to Atlanta, I did not want to come here; I got traded here.

Not everyone gets to have one of the few super-dominant, all-pro, superstars in this league, and so playing with the pass and playing with space and playing quick is a really good backup.

Shooting is all about rhythm and confidence, and sometimes those are the last things that get there.

There are definitely times during a game when you need someone to step up and make a play.

I love it when the best team beats the best players.

I've been on some really good teams.

I think any of the older guys you can poll throughout the NBA, they're super-regimented. Because as long as that body lasts, your mind should be better; your shot should be better. But the reality is, at some point, your body does break down - you do get older - so it's just, how do you prolong that as long as possible?

Anytime something is a little new and a little fresh, it's going to be critiqued.

I had a column in high school for our school newspaper. I enjoy writing.

I'm my own person and my own player. Not that I don't admire other players and try and do similar things.

When I came into the NBA, coaches wanted you to shoot a midrange shot or two before you shot your 3 - you know, to get an 'easy one' first.

I have the most amazing job. I play basketball and keep working at it and trying to get better.

You're always trying to get better. You're always tinkering. You're always learning new things.

Teams are trying to get the advantage over the other team by what kind of reads we can get, how can we measure guys if they're tired - all these things.

I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of character because I've had to judge a lot of characters.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

Sometimes it helps to take a couple days off, as weird as that sounds. Every once in a while, I could just shoot so many shots. You can get so, like, intense with it all. It's like in life, right? We're all created for a sabbath day or for a day of rest. You sometimes need that in shooting, too.

I see a David West score 47, and yeah, it'd be cool to put up numbers like that. But I don't need that to make me happy.

A lot of things in life, you can be told the right way to do it, but you've kind of got to learn by your own mistakes. It's just human nature.

I've been shooting my whole life. I don't remember a team where I wasn't playing basketball. It's something I really enjoy, and I shoot for hours at a time.

I think some people get just locked into 'this is the way it has to be,' and they're afraid of messing something up. I don't ever want to be that way with shooting or with anything, really - not just shooting.

I have a hard time imagining a life without basketball.

Besides shooting, I think I need to work on everything. I need to get stronger, quicker, work on my ballhandling, and develop a go-to move.

I'm not afraid of changing something to try to be better at it.

I know that I love the whole game of basketball, and that's what I've always believed in.

That is what shooting is. There is no secret sauce, man. You've got to find mechanics that you can make the same every time, and you've got to do it over and over again, and you can't just shoot for rhythm. You've got to understand what you are doing. You have to focus on those details every day.

I'm not a cold-weather guy.

The people you end up hanging out with are the people you become.

Out of high school, all I heard was 'one dimensional,' 'can't do anything but shoot.'

Analytics, math, science has gone into a lot of different areas of the NBA.

I've always believed the better the players I'm surrounded by, the better I am. I've never tried to think of myself as anything different. I know who I am as a basketball player and I'm never going to try to pretend that I'm more or less, but definitely not more.

Everyone wants to be liked.