Dennis Rodman Quotes

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,

Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.

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.

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.

I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.

If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.

I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

It's a different story because guess what, the kid is only 28 years old, 28. He's not his dad, not his grandpa. He's 28 years old.

When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

I'm just saying I'm being myself, and people understand that.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

I go out with white women. This ...

I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.

The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

It's just like we do over here in America, right? It's amazing that we have presidents over here do the same thing, right? It's amazing that Bill Clinton could do one thing and have sex with his secretary and really get away with it and still be powerful.

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

If you're going to have sex, use a condom.

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.

If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

I only weigh 220, so I have to do something to keep from being tossed around by all the guys who weigh 250 and more. I train hard, but I don't try to get too big.

I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

You can love me or you can hate me.

Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.

Madonna wasn't an acrobat or anything, but the sex was good. I could tell she liked it.

He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

With me, everything's right on the table.

I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.

There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

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.