Dennis Rodman Quotes (73 Quotes)

Maybe next year, though I need to practice hard. The results in the competition were dazzling.

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

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.

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

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

Heard you have a new book coming out, 'I Should Be Dead By Now.' (The cover shows Rodman smoking a cigar and playing Texas Hold 'Em with a grim reaper behind him.) That's a great title.

My dream is to get back into the NBA on the back of these games, Portland and Toronto have offered me try-outs.

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

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

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

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

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

It was very difficult being in that house, just sitting around talking about this and that and smoking cigars. But I enjoyed this and I love Britain.

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

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

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

I'm not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

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

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

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

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

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

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

My fans are very important to me and I showed up Thursday to support their loyalty. I'm sorry that I only played a few minutes, but promise to make it up to them on Jan. 10.

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

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

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

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

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.

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

We were getting cable TV on his watch.

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

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

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

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.

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

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

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

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

Were you at any time worried that Frank Brickowski was going to kick your butt in the '96 NBA Finals

I don't need to sink the ball, I just need to do things that got me where I was. At 44, it is difficult. If it happens, it will be a mark in history.

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

Estonian carry. It could hurt the back.

I was running, jumping and doing my thing. My focus was to just show them I could jump, get up to the rim. I tried to get a lot of rebounds, run, maneuver, set screens and stuff like that. ... I think I'll be back here. I think they freaked out. They couldn't believe I am 43 years old.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

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