Chuck Connors famous quotes

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
-- Chuck Connors

#Basketball #Player #Defense

I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.
-- Chuck Connors

#Want

I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.
-- Chuck Connors

#Baseball #Games #Debt

If you're ever being typecasted - as most of us are - that's a great way to be typecasted. So, 'The Rifleman' is still popular with a lot of people, and I'm proud to be associated.
-- Chuck Connors

#People #Proud #Way

I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.
-- Chuck Connors

#Growing Up #Believe #Kids

I depended on chiropractic care when I was an athlete. I depend on it now as a busy film and TV actor.
-- Chuck Connors

#Athlete #Chiropractic Care #Actors

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I believe that good defense embodies seven cardinal principle: reduce the number of your opponent's shots; force your opponent into low percentage shots; control everything within 18 feet; eliminate second shots; no easy baskets; point the ball on all long shots; and prevent the ball from going into the pivot man.

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.

I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.

This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.