A biography for Daryl Moreyhasn’t been written yet.
“My goal is to win a championship, so whatever gets us there is what we'll do.”
“Originally, I think basketball is closer to hockey than baseball.”
“If you had first pick in the all-free agent NBA draft, you'd take LeBron James.”
“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.”
“The Lakers do this all the time. They overload the side the ball's on, and play zone on the weak side.”
“If the money's equal between the Rockets and Mavericks, I think players are picking Houston. Every time.”
“There's a lot of charming bigs. I don't know if it's like the fat kid on the playground or what.”
“I could use a Chris Matthews-level speech writer to script everything I say. That would be good.”
“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.”
“Someday, I want to live in New York and just go to shows.”
“You don't want the second-most powerful government on Earth mad at you, if you can avoid it.”
“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.'”
“We have to care what our fans think sometimes.”
“I'm very logical.”
“I think the best way to win in the NBA is to take your talent and figure out how to utilize them the best.”
“The only time information is really an edge is if you either have more or you're using it better.”
“It would be very presumptive of me to think I could help an NFL team.”
“Almost no one is a career 28 percent shooter on open 3s.”
“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.”
“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.”