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