Dennis Rodman Quotes
Basketball Player
They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.
I don't trust what this life has given me.
If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
I'll be the judge of my own manliness.
I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.
With me, everything's right on the table.
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.
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.
I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.
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've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
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.
Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?
My rookie year, I was very immature.
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
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.
You can love me or you can hate me.
I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.
They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
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 the basketball version of a gravedigger.
I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.
I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.
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 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.
If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
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.