Quotes from Daryl Morey

The Mavericks are a smart organization.

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.

I just feel incredibly fortunate that I got the chance to be part of the Rockets organization all those years ago.

I'd love to be with the Rockets for life.

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

Almost no one is a career 28 percent shooter on open 3s.

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 if you've got a guy who can create his own shot then you're better off than not.

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

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?

If the money's equal between the Rockets and Mavericks, I think players are picking Houston. Every time.

My goal is to win a championship, so whatever gets us there is what we'll do.

I could use a Chris Matthews-level speech writer to script everything I say. That would be good.

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

Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

Everyone 'watches Kobe when the Lakers play.

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's a lot of charming bigs. I don't know if it's like the fat kid on the playground or what.

Most players are like golfers. You don't want them swinging while they're thinking.

I think the reality is that no one is any good at crunch time.

We were trying to build the best team around our talents in Houston.

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.

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.

Basketball is sort of an interesting sport that, you know, the top player on your team makes so much more of an impact than the top player in any other sport.