Dennis Rodman Ball Quotations

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

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.

With me, everything's right on the table.

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

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 don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

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

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

This whole huddle thing really pisses me off.

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

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

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.

I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.

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

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

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

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.

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 doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

I don't want to be bulky and stiff.

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

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

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

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

I don't trust what this life has given me.

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

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'll be the judge of my own manliness.

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

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

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

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

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

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

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 nothing more than a sports slave.

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

The Bulls talked to just about every person who ever met me.

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

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.

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

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

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

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

Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.

You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

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

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

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

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.

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

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

You can love me or you can hate me.

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

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

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

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

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

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

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