Chuck Connors Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.

Stephen Fry

#3. The day I left baseball, I became smart. When I was in baseball, I played for the love of the game. I'd sign any contract they gave me. But then I stopped playing and began doing interviews with the players at the ball park. I began to see the light.

Chuck Connors

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

Chuck Connors

#5. I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?

Adam Phillips

#6. The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

Dave Matthews

#8. War is the science of destruction.

John Abbott

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

Chuck Connors

#10. Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?

Leon Krier

#11. There's a feeling I get when I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

Led Zeppelin

#12. 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

#13. My romance writing began with an avid romance-reading mother who devoured so many romances each week that I decide to save library trips by supplementing the supply myself.

Joyce Dingwell

#14. 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

#15. He wouldn't talk to me for two months. I was like, 'What an ass**le.' Actors are used to getting their way and to treating women like objects. [on Wesley Snipes after she reports he made unreturned passes at her]

Jennifer Lopez

#16. I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

Chuck Connors