Chauncey Billups Quotes

I want to go to the NBA and be an All-Star, to be honest with you.

I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.

I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning 52 games in a short period of time. I loved coaching Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and all those guys.

For all of the achievements and awards, to be able to retire as a Raider ranks highest among all of those.

I'm just playing basketball. I just want to be a great player. That's it. That's all I'm thinking about. If the other stuff comes, it comes, but I'm just fortunate to play in the NBA Finals and just to play basketball, period.

Just to be able to play one minute in an NBA game, I'm grateful for that.

If you know people around me, even in college, I was confident, but the possible thought of making it to the NBA was crazy.

We understand the realities of the sports world. Take Shaq for example, he was traded from here and went on to several other teams after that. But once he was retired, he asked us to retire his jersey. He wanted to be remembered as a Laker.

Making it to the NBA is a big goal in my life, and one day I hope to conquer it.

If I retire from this league and I haven't won at least one championship, I'll feel like all my years in the league would be a failure.

If you were to ask me, I think my jersey will be hanging in the rafters when I retire in Sacramento.

This is the Boston Celtics. This isn't the Phoenix Suns. No disrespect to any other organization, but you don't hang conference titles. Do we hang going to the conference finals?

I'm living my dream, getting to play in the NBA, getting to play basketball.

If I make it in the NBA or wind up playing overseas, I will be at peace.

You want to play as long as you can. The old, unwritten rule: If you make it to the NBA, you play as long as you can - and you play one more year.

I want to get into the NBA and make a name for myself.

I don't miss basketball because I've already got in my mind that I did what I had to do for 17 years. I think I'm satisfied with what I did.

Jerry West really helped a lot, and so did players like Magic Johnson. That's why, at the end of my career, I wanted to finish my career with the Lakers.

I've done did a lot of things in the NBA, made a lot of stuff, so I'm happy with what I've done.

Here I am, playing with Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Kidd is my coach, I'm in Brooklyn, New York, they lobbied for me to be here... Regardless of my circumstances, I'm here.

I was raised in the NBA. I've seen some guys stay and I've seen a lot go. I've watched James Harden be a rival of mine for Sixth Man of the Year to an MVP candidate.

It's been one heck of a ride. I came into the league playing with Kobe and Shaq and for Phil Jackson. Playing with Jordan. And so, it just has been a blessing. I can't describe it any other way.

When I signed back with Detroit, I signed to retire a Piston.

I've been blessed to be in the NBA.

Trying to make the NBA is one of the very few areas where a Harvard degree won't necessarily help.