Top 69 Quotes & Sayings by Daryl Morey
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Last updated on November 3, 2024.
It would be very presumptive of me to think I could help an NFL team.
If there's a great opportunity, obviously we're going to do it early. But the main thing is, you want to do great moves when they are available. But often the best move is not a move that is done right away.
I could use a Chris Matthews-level speech writer to script everything I say. That would be good.
There's a lot of charming bigs. I don't know if it's like the fat kid on the playground or what.
During trade deadline, we pretty much tell every player, look, there's lots of names, lots of everything for every player in the league. So it's best to tune it out because every team's job is to explore things and you don't like when things get out, but it's silly to kill or accentuate rumors during deadline week.
I think the uglier the playoff beard, the better though, right?
That always seemed the coolest thing to me. How do you use num'bers to predict things? It was like a cool way to use numbers to be better than other people. And I really liked being better than other people.
My son the other day was looking and found a grey hair and started crying because he thought I was going to die. That's a true story. So I had to assure him that a couple grey hairs doesn't mean I'm going to die.
It's tough out there, but obviously I have a lot of great memories and a lot of pride for being a part of the Rockets organization.
I just feel incredibly fortunate that I got the chance to be part of the Rockets organization all those years ago.
I'm very logical.
I think Houston is a city players love to play for, love to play in.
The only time information is really an edge is if you either have more or you're using it better.
We don't want to incent a guy to do things that hurt the team. They all maximize what they think they're being paid for.
One thing I've learned is that Brandon Roy is an unbelievable player.
I did have that happen when I was with the Celtics once - I was there late and no one woke me up when I fell asleep in a chair. But at the Celtics they didn't like me as much, so they let me snooze away and made fun of me.
We have to care what our fans think sometimes.
If the money's equal between the Rockets and Mavericks, I think players are picking Houston. Every time.
I'd love to be with the Rockets for life.
Originally, I think basketball is closer to hockey than baseball.
I didn't have, like, any way to penetrate organized sports. So I decided at that point that I had to be rich. If I was rich I could just buy a team and run it.
I think the best way to win in the NBA is to take your talent and figure out how to utilize them the best.
But I leave the arena late in games specifically because I don't want anyone to see my psychology.
James Harden changed my life. An entire page could be dedicated just to James. He not only transformed my life but also revolutionized the game of basketball - and continues to do so - like almost no one has before.
I think the reality is that no one is any good at crunch time.
I think the whole Rockets organization has done amazing things.
I like clean answers.
Almost no one is a career 28 percent shooter on open 3s.
The only time being in the middle class hurts you is if you're in the middle class with players who are on bad contracts. If you're in the middle class and all your players are on good contracts then I don't think that's a problem.
The Mavericks are a smart organization.
If you had first pick in the all-free agent NBA draft, you'd take LeBron James.
You don't want the second-most powerful government on Earth mad at you, if you can avoid it.
To me, when I was a kid, we watched terrible network TV because it was all we had. We watched 'The A-Team' and 'Knight Rider.'
Unfortunately, rim protection is really difficult these days with the rules that there are if a guy is getting downhill. It's very hard even if the center is back to handle that. You have to cut off penetration at the start with a strong perimeter and then get the rebound and get out and go.
The Rockets know we can't get too up with a 2-0 lead because we've had some struggles in the past with that.
As only one team out of 30 gets to win, you cannot play it safe.
Someday, I want to live in New York and just go to shows.
I didn't think the worlds of theater and basketball intersected. I thought the Venn diagram would be one person: me. As it turns out, there are a few of us.
The Lakers do this all the time. They overload the side the ball's on, and play zone on the weak side.
Ultimately you want to optimize championship probability over some window. But if you literally take that to the logical extreme, you would be doing crazy stuff.
If you have an intuition of something but no hard evidence to back it up, you might kind of sort of go about putting that intuition into practice, because there's still some uncertainty if it's right or wrong.
We were trying to build the best team around our talents in Houston.
The great players understand that you need to play with other great players to win the title.
I think if you've got a guy who can create his own shot then you're better off than not.
Personally, many of my views are not in the mainstream as I am a centrist-libertarian.
My goal is to win a championship, so whatever gets us there is what we'll do.
It's very tough competition in the West. The Lakers deserve to be called the favorites.
My son is 14. He watches these 'let's play' videos, people playing other in video games. At first, I was bothered by it, I didn't get it, but at the end of the day, if you go back when I was a kid, I watched much worse. These videos are more entertaining and more interesting than the bad '80s TV.
There are lots of decisions, and also non-decisions, that go into this job. In the same way that it can be impossible to separate a coach from the players, it's also impossible to separate the GM from the coach from the players. You just have to ask: Is the GM helping the team have playoff success? Is he giving the team a chance to win the title?
I think the more wins you have, it shows that your players are more talented so it opens up your ability to upgrade the team if necessary.
Thank you to Josh Harris for the trust he has placed in me to lead the 76ers. I am humbled by the challenge and will work tirelessly to win the hearts of Philadelphia's legendary fans.
As far as I can tell, the baseball teams are run pretty darn well. I'm sure there's some better and worse, but I don't ever see a baseball team anymore and go, 'They're absolutely insane.'
I went to business school, because I thought that's where you had to go if you wanted to get rich.
I think the key to winning a championship is get superstars who are great players.
Everyone 'watches Kobe when the Lakers play.
Yeah, I definitely tend towards dry, sarcastic British humor. I actually aspire to be British - I'm pasty white as well.
Everything in life is about habits. Nothing resolved in a single day really matters at all. So I don't do resolutions at all.
Most players are like golfers. You don't want them swinging while they're thinking.
Frankly, I've had the opportunity to get certain accolades, make it to the conference finals, get awards, all this other stuff that doesn't matter. I'm looking only on championship probability. I just feel like I haven't accomplished much unless I can somehow get that done.
Well, first of all the defensive three-seconds rule doesn't allow you to play a true zone like you would in international ball and college. Another key factor is training. It is a very different defense to coach, in a pure sense. Not many coaches in the NBA have focused on that, they're largely man-focused.
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