Chauncey Billups Quotes

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

Eventually, I'd like to have some sort of role like a chief executive in a football club.

My job, when it comes to free agency, trades, is not to pick players, but support the personnel department and the coaching staff. We have to have the financial resources to make things happen and that's my job.

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

I have had the privilege of serving as city comptroller, and I lead 750 professionals in the office, have appointed eight deputy comptrollers... no one has criticized my management of these 750 professionals.

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

A head coach has to be able to oversee all facets of the team and of the game.

A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.

Managers can make themselves look strong by selling or dropping players, but if the move doesn't work, the choice looks flawed.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

If I was to become a manager, I would not want someone else to be signing the players for the team that my job depended on.

World Cups aren't moments to invest in players.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

The Bears need to let me be GM.

I have led a few teams prior to the IPL, led in Mumbai T20 as well as DY Patil T20 tournament.

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That's what makes a team really good.

In any rebuilding process, I feel like there's probably going to be two or three coaches.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

I had the best teacher there can be in man management or managing a football club.

As part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team. You come in to assess. You come in to rearrange.

It's very flattering that those who have assessed my work over the years think that I have the qualities to be an England manager.

The concept of head coach simply means being hyperfocused on the pitch and team performance.

I didn't aspire to be the CEO of Deloitte, but I aspired to be a leader in Deloitte.

We had a really good club at Everton who gave me the opportunity to do the job the way I felt it needed to be done.