Dennis Rodman Quotations

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

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

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

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

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

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

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

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

You can love me or you can hate me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.

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

Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.

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

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

unique human being, who is not only a great athlete but also one of the best entertainers in the world.

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

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

With me, everything's right on the table.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that's what I mean about that.

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.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

I say I'm Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin all wrapped up into one. If I die early ... I'll be just like those guys.

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.

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

I'm very particular about who I sleep with.

I hate the fact that he's doing that, but the fact is that, you know what, that's a human being, though. He let his guard down one day to me, a friend.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.

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

I have one regret, I wish I was a better father.

Create havoc, create destruction.