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Quotations by Dennis Rodman 62 Found Born: Saturday, May 13, 1961 A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph. As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want. 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. Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all. Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something. Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me. Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet? Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. 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. 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 can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire. I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter. I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway. I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy. I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him. I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it. I don't trust what this life has given me. I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95. I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game. I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women. I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas. I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas. I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game. I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape. I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination. 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 want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks. I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie. I'll be the judge of my own manliness. I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge. I'm not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get. I'm nothing more than a sports slave. I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered. I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger. I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive. I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven. I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart. If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress. If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem. If you're going to have sex, use a condom. In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me. My feet are like gnarled old tree branches. My rookie year, I was very immature. The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete. 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 one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound. 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. There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
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