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Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.
PATRICK EWING Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.
ALVIN GENTRY My first couple of years in the league left me very unstable. I had some times where I played well, ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS That's what a great team is all about. When somebody is struggling, somebody else is picking up the ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think it's a little mental fatigue.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Rip was aggressive early. And once he got it cooking, we kept going to him and we fed off him. When ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry beat him up too much. He tore the kid's confidence apart too much, and it was tough for him to...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think he feels like he has a weight lifted off his shoulders. He's playing freely. He's playing a ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We felt we had a chance to win this series, but nobody else felt that. We knew we were the only ones...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I just heard about it, ... I wasn't really paying attention. That's cold. Bet they won't do that aga...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We enjoy the challenge of beating teams on their home turf. The fans will be going crazy and screami...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS When he's aggressive and he's playing like that, it takes the pressure off everybody. Rip (Richard H...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I am definitely going to miss him.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS What he meant to his game, not just to this city but to the entire league, with his sportsmanship an...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS When he gets a tech, he always seems to be a little more in tune with what's going on. We ran his pl...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Our last game was Tuesday, so I had a couple days to soak it in. That's when it kind of hit me that ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS [Billups seemed confident Friday that he and his teammates would rise to the challenge, and that Wal...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS He's 18, but he looks, the way he's built, like he's 27 or 28. And he doesn't act like a kid. He's v...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I remember before I left we had the program really rocking. It was loud when there was a lot of kids...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Our defense is going to stay the same. Teams might score a few more points because we might play a l...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Milicic created a brief fi restorm midway through last season when he griped publicly about his endo...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry beat him up too much,
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We go back to the hotel instead of to the airplane.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS [But if that were to happen,] my teammates would not enjoy playing with me, ... They would think I a...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Quite frankly, Minnesota was where my career kind of turned around, and it all had to do with Flip S...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm just mad I missed those two free throws. We had a letdown against Cleveland, and we needed to tu...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I persevered, sustained, and continued to work hard and finally got my opportunity in Detroit, and I...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry is great and made a difference on our team, ... But I think we were great before he got here. ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS My wife cooks, I clean. Then I go to practice, come home, and take a two hour nap. I wake up, shave ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS People only see you on TV and riding around like stars, but they don't see behind the scenes how...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I am a big music guy. Hip-hop, R&B, old school, jazz.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I got 'Smooth' when I was growing up. I got 'Bigshot' playing in Detroit. People who...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The game was very, very good to me. I felt like I was equally as good to the game the way I played i...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that ti...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS The kind of leader and teammate that I was, at every stop I made, I was always honest with guys and ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS There is a good and a bad way to handle everything.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm thinking about being the best I can be at ESPN in the studio.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm the kind of guy who has to be two feet in if I am going to give my best effort, so broadcast...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think the most important position in the league now is the point guard.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS For me, I think Andre Drummond is going to be a superstar. We didn't have that. We had a lot of ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS That's kind of been my entire career, the stress and pressure.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I love my life. I love this ESPN thing; it's been fun.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS What bothered me more than if LeBron left or not was that I didn't think they had great assets i...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS It wasn't that I knew Kyrie wanted to be traded or not, or him and LeBron had a beef. I don'...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Everybody has their own desires.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS A lot of time, you play well and you do good work, but you are not on a good team, so it really does...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I played football first. I love football. I'm a die-hard Broncos fan. I loved football, but in t...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Marcus Banks had three years here, to play, and he had three coaches (Jim O'Brien, John Carroll, Doc...
DANNY AINGE Chauncey just knew what to do with kids; he was so good with them.
CHAD SANDERS Me and Chauncey were talking in the locker room. We are trying to figure out some way to recognize h...
RASHEED WALLACE Chauncey is a player I respect. He's a big-game player.
FLIP SAUNDERS We stayed in the game because of Chauncey and Rip (Hamilton).
FLIP SAUNDERS Practices were tough.
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR Chauncey looked a lot livelier. A lot of guys looked a lot more livelier tonight.
FLIP SAUNDERS You play the role of a tough man, when in reality your just a bitch.
DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ It was just a tough, up-and-down game. It was a tough game for us but that's what we needed to see -...
DUANE JOUBERT We thought we could do a better job on Billups, but he kept them in the game. Whenever it looked lik...
LUKE PEREIRA It's always tough to win at the end of the road. I'm just so proud of these kids and this team. They...
JASON VELA What we've noticed a little bit about Chauncey and what Flip has done with this team, he has injecte...
PAT RILEY Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a l...
JOE TORRE The studio moguls were certainly bigger-than-life figures, but they were also tough and unforgiving ...
MICHAEL KORDA I personally support it. I feel it is well-thought-out legislation that will uniform the operations ...
BRUCE TOUGH Some of these guys who go door to door have criminal records. They can come out and ask these indivi...
BRUCE TOUGH We don't have ordinance-making authority.
BRUCE TOUGH It would be an entity that would define our boundaries in The Woodlands. It would allow for a centra...
BRUCE TOUGH Chemistry is not destiny, certainly. But these scientists have demonstrated that the most reliable w...
PAUL TOUGH My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
RITA RUDNER [They were] both really tough kids. They weren't the physical specimen [Smith] was, but they were to...
CHARLIE THOMPSON Because of our injury at 215, we knew it would be tough with three weights to go. There were lots of...
LARRY GOODNATURE He's legit. We couldn't play him man-to-man. He's tough to stop.
JEFF ELLIS I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, th...
BLYTHE DANNER Those guys are just tough kids. They're old school and they're scrappers. They were just tremendous ...
ANTHONY MENARD My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napp...
RITA RUDNER They have tradition going there. They will play a tough man-to-man defense.
ANDY CERRONI That talk is ridiculous. Those are the same people who said Chauncey Billups was a bust. The fact is...
JOHN NASH Their fans were really tough. It was a tough environment to play in.
CYNDI VALENTIN Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away.
But if you can't walk away?
I guess t...
ARTHUR MILLER We were getting shots, we just couldn't finish. It's tough to win when you shoot (22 percent). And i...
CHERYL DARPEL When he was around, man, you knew he was there. That was tough . . . I miss him a lot.
DALE EARNHARDT JR It's tough; tough to lose on the road, especially when we were that close.
KYLE JEFFERS They were really tough, man. I think we could have had [the game] but guys didn't step up and do wha...
CHARLES TURNER They just made the tough shots. We were there in their face and they made things happen. We can't ha...
KATE ACHTER There were a lot of tears of joy in my basement. After (Saturday's) tough loss, this is just such a ...
STEW MORRILL A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
DICK CAVETT It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
FRANK PERDUE The image is interesting - he is reasonable. Actors must have different colors, powers and backgroun...
JEAN RENO There's no comfort I can give,
that will ease her pain,
and make her see that she's the<...
KRISTAN BILLUPS J.J. and 'Puff' were real tough tonight.
CHRISSY STEFANINI I think it was pretty much one of those days. We were going up against tough competitors and Harvard...
GEORGE KOLOMBATOVICH People were trying to outdo each other cheering and booing. Mark would just stand there, arms out, l...
GUILLERMO RESTO We were just hoping East would keep shooting from the outside and not pass the ball to him. He's rea...
HARVEY KITANI Our competition is so tough at the sectional meet, I felt pressure just to reach state. People were ...
KAREN KUHLMANN When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys we...
JOE MANGANIELLO Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my t...
DAVID ORTIZ

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CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I think it's a little mental fatigue.
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CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry beat him up too much. He tore the kid's confidence apart too much, and it was tough for him to...
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CHAUNCEY BILLUPS [Billups seemed confident Friday that he and his teammates would rise to the challenge, and that Wal...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS He's 18, but he looks, the way he's built, like he's 27 or 28. And he doesn't act like a kid. He's v...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I remember before I left we had the program really rocking. It was loud when there was a lot of kids...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I drive a Range Rover almost every day, but my favorite is my '69 SS Camaro.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Our defense is going to stay the same. Teams might score a few more points because we might play a l...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Milicic created a brief fi restorm midway through last season when he griped publicly about his endo...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry beat him up too much,
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We go back to the hotel instead of to the airplane.
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS [But if that were to happen,] my teammates would not enjoy playing with me, ... They would think I a...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Quite frankly, Minnesota was where my career kind of turned around, and it all had to do with Flip S...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I'm just mad I missed those two free throws. We had a letdown against Cleveland, and we needed to tu...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I persevered, sustained, and continued to work hard and finally got my opportunity in Detroit, and I...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Larry is great and made a difference on our team, ... But I think we were great before he got here. ...
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CHAUNCEY BILLUPS We don't just hop out of bed, scratch our eyes, and become an NBA baller. It's a process. It...
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CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I got into a lot of fights, but it wasn't because of my name. Being from the neighborhood with a...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. ...
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