Daryl Morey

“Everything in life is about habits. Nothing resolved in a single day really matters at all. So I don't do resolutions at all.”

“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.”

“Yeah, I definitely tend towards dry, sarcastic British humor. I actually aspire to be British - I'm pasty white as well.”

“I think the key to winning a championship is get superstars who are great players.”

“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.”

“I strongly support organizations like the ACLU that defend basic freedoms and I have for a 25-plus years.”

“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.”

“I used to get the question in Houston which was like 'What would you do if you had Shaq?' My answer was 'I would give Shaq the ball 100 times a game.'”

“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.'”

“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.”

“I went to business school, because I thought that's where you had to go if you wanted to get rich.”

“One thing I've learned is that Brandon Roy is an unbelievable player.”

“I like clean answers.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's very tough competition in the West. The Lakers deserve to be called the favorites.”

“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 great players understand that you need to play with other great players to win the title.”

“Isaiah Joe is not too complicated. He's just one of these elite shooters coming out of college.”