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.
— Kyle Korver
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.
If you want to be a great team, you've got to be able to play 48 minutes.
I watched the Bulls growing up. To be part of an organization like that is great.
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 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.
Do I consider the 2003 Draft class the best ever? Yes, absolutely!
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.
I've always had a good relationship with superstar players. I don't really demand the ball 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!'
The playoffs are a chess match, with adjustments every game.
I loved being 36.
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.
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.
You've got to go through some good times and some bad times, and hopefully you're able to recover from the bad times.
The mental side of sports, it's huge. It's such a massive part of the game.
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.
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?
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.
Chicago is an amazing place for sports.
Shooting threes is always going to be what I do best.
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.
I've never been a break-you-down, one-on-one guy.
I do remember my first 3-point attempt. I missed it.
It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting.
Midseason trades are hard.
It's hard when you get down. You start pressing a little bit trying to get back in the game.
I probably need to hold my emotions in check a little more, but that's just part of my wiring, too.
My parents didn't pay for college because we all got scholarships.
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.
Well, the LeBron James of the world don't come around very often. That's a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing.
A player senses when a coach loses confidence in him. That, more than anything, can throw a player.
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.
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 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 always tried to set my standards high on a daily basis.
The Bulls are first class in every way: great people, organization, culture, and a great place to play basketball.
In Atlanta, we ran a motion offense, so, obviously, I was on the move a lot.
I've never played the jack-it-up kinda game; that's just not who I am.
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.
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.
That's when I'm at my best: when I'm surrounded by good players.
You can never expect things to happen like they did the last time. You still have to put in the work.
You're not going to reinvent yourself in the middle of a playoff series.
I don't think I ever would have imagined having this career.
I have strong faith, and I have strong family.
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.
Diving is cool to watch. Springboard or platform - it doesn't matter.
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'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.
