Dennis Rodman Quotes

• "A black player knows he can go out on th ecourt and kick a white player's ass."
• "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."
• "Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all."
• "Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me."
• "Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?"
• "Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money."
• "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."
• "For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true."
• "I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire."
• "I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter."
• "I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway."
• "I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy."
• "I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him."
• "I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it."
• "I don't trust what this life has given me."
• "I don't want to be bulky and stiff."
• "I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95."
• "I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game."
• "I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women."
• "I knew I would have been just another nigger if I didn't play basketball."
• "I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas."
• "I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there."
• "I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas."
• "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 spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game."
• "I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape."
• "I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination."
• "I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top."
• "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 want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks."
• "I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity."
• "I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie."
• "I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game."
• "I work my ass off in practice every day. How many other guys can say the same thing? Not many."
• "I'll be the judge of my own manliness."
• "I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player."
• "I'm going to come out and tell it like it is."
• "I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge."
• "I'm not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get."
• "I'm nothing more than a sports slave."
• "I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered."
• "I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger."
• "I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive."
• "I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven."
• "I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart."
• "If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress."
• "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."
• "It's all about what they can get out of me."
• "John Stockton is the biggest cheap-shot artist in the league."
• "Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me."
• "Madonna wasn't an acrobat or anything, but the sex was good. I could tell she liked it."
• "Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side."
• "My feet are like gnarled old tree branches."
• "My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time."
• "My rookie year, I was very immature."
• "People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter."
• "Popovich wanted to be the guy who tamed Dennis Rodman."
• "Some people want to have controversy between the races."
• "Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more."
• "The Bulls talked to just about every person who ever met me."
• "The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete."
• "The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know."
• "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."
• "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."
• "The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound."
• "The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team."
• "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."
• "The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game."
• "There is so much hypocrisy in sports."
• "There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look."
• "There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character."
• "These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing."
• "They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas."
• "They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color."
• "This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is."
• "This whole huddle thing really pisses me off."
• "To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person."
• "When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young."
• "When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be."
• "When I was 3, my father stopped coming home."
• "When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried."
• "Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid."
• "Why are there people out there who idolize Dennis Rodman? It baffles me."
• "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."