Quotes by Dennis Rodman

• For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
• A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
• As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.
• I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.
• I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
• I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
• I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
• I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
• I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
• I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
• I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
• I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
• I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
• Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
• I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
• At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.
• I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.
• I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
• I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.
• I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
• I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.
• For five years I've felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.
• Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
• Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
• Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
• Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.
• I don't trust what this life has given me.
• Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.
• The people at the top of the league think they need to rein me in so I don't become another Michael Jordan, somebody they aren't able to mold and shape and make their puppet.
• There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
• There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
• They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
• I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.
• This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
• The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
• When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
• They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
• Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?
• Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
• With me, everything's right on the table.
• You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
• I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.
• I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.
• I'm not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get.
• I'll be the judge of my own manliness.
• To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
• I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
• The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
• I'm nothing more than a sports slave.
• I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
• I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.
• I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
• If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.
• If you're going to have sex, use a condom.
• In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
• Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.
• My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
• My rookie year, I was very immature.
• The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
• The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.
• If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.