Dennis Rodman Quotes

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

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

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

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

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

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

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

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

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

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

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

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

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

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

I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

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

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

I'm going to come out and tell it like it is.

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.

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

I'm very particular about who I sleep with.

This whole huddle thing really pisses me off.

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

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

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

The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game.

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

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

With me, everything's right on the table.