Chauncey Billups Quotes

It's all right buying all these good players but they've got to gel, and that takes time.

We have to talk about the players we have.

As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.

I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

A relationship is like another job, you know, you have to work at it all the time.

The head coach is the chemist.

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.

I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

You have a losing team, you change the coach.

I am not certain whether we can afford your friendship, be it eternal or merely temporary. I fail to see the difference between what you define as friendship and what civilized nations call enmity.

If we kept all the players I liked personally, we'd be a lot worse team over the years.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.

I said, maybe you need to take a risk with someone else. But they kept saying no, we want you to stay.

I think sometimes when trades are made the beginning of the season on paper, they look great. It just takes time. Sometimes the process by the media or outside influences or sources want it to be now. Sometimes it doesn't work that way.

I want to build a team who can play home and away the same.

When you're a player, you want the manager to know your quality and to want you.

I understand very well that if you are a national coach, you want to use all the opportunities that you have to meet up with your team.

When a coach loses a team... that's when a coach is kind of done.

People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.

Managers come and go, and first-team coaches and players can leave suddenly.

You want to build your own team for the highest level, and that happens more with teams that stay together.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

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

Clubs will lose great players, and great players will come in.