Dennis Rodman Quotes
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is ten, or something.
Black culture is something I don`t relate to much at all.
I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
Everybody`s talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
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.
They didn`t have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
I don`t fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I`ve been punished financially for it.
My rookie year, I was very immature.
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
You can love me or you can hate me.
If you`re going to have sex, use a condom.
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
I`m the basketball version of a gravedigger.
Wherever there`s money, there`s drugs, so to say drugs don`t exist in the NBA would be stupid.
Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.
I didn`t want to be known as Madonna`s playboy, her boy toy.
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
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 want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
The doors fly open when you`re a professional athlete.
There`s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
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 can score 20 points if I want to, but that`s not my desire.
If you have a problem with my answer that`s your problem, not my problem.
Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?
Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
I`m starting to see players copy what I do. I`m flattered.
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you`re looking at him. Elvis isn`t dead; he just changed color.
I`m trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.
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 not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get.
As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.
I can`t begin to describe the amount of crap I`ve taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.
There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
I couldn`t care less if the guy I`m guarding has HIV. I`m going to slam him anyway.
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
I don`t feel anything when I watch Shaquille O`Neal play. I don`t feel anything coming off him.
I wear women`s leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn`t want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
Karl Malone`s too high-class for a bum like me.
I`ve got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
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.
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 felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in `95.
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`ve been homeless. I`ve worked at 7-Eleven.
I don`t trust what this life has given me.
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
I`m hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
If I want to wear a dress, I`ll wear a dress.
With me, everything`s right on the table.
I learned a lot I wouldn`t have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
I`ll be the judge of my own manliness.
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can`t see how deep it is.
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
I`m nothing more than a sports slave.
