Dennis Rodman Quotes

With me, everything's right on the table.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

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

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

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

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

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

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

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

My rookie year, I was very immature.

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

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

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

It's just like we do over here in America, right? It's amazing that we have presidents over here do the same thing, right? It's amazing that Bill Clinton could do one thing and have sex with his secretary and really get away with it and still be powerful.

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.

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

Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.

If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.

Madonna wasn't an acrobat or anything, but the sex was good. I could tell she liked it.

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.

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

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

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

I don't want to be bulky and stiff.

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

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

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

Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

If you're going to have sex, use a condom.

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

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

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

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

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

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.

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 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.

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

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

I'm very particular about who I sleep with.

I want to be anywhere in the world that I'm needed. I want to spread a message of peace and love throughout the world.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

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

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