Dennis Rodman Quotes

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

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

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

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

You can love me or you can hate me.

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

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

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

There's no image we can't improve.

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

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

Create havoc, create destruction.

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

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

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

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.

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?!

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

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 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.

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

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

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

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

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

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

Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man.

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

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.

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.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

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.

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

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.

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 don't trust what this life has given me.

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 think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

I don't want to be bulky and stiff.

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.