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

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As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.

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Chuck Connors

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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And journalism itself has changed. News organizations and some journalists have transformed from their traditional role as watchdogs of power into institutions of power themselves with an ability, indeed, a susceptibility, to abuse that power.

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