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Dennis Rodman
American
Athlete
About the author
For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Years
#Thought
#Drugs
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Want
#People
#Being
#Dreams
As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Want
#Play
#Woman
I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Play
I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#People
#Money
#Talking
#Community
#Rap
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Marriage
#Athletes
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Childhood
I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Money
#Mind
#Women
I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#People
#Women
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Love
#Eyes
#Body
#Pain
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Attention
#Hair
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Life
#Money
#Sex
I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Man
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.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Building
#Car
#Women
I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Want
I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Care
I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Being
I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Want
#Desire
I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
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.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Years
#Girls
Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Talking
#Quiet
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Death
#Mind
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#School
#College
#Class
Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Culture
I don't trust what this life has given me.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Life
#Trust
Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Money
#Drugs
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.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#People
There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Sports
#Hypocrisy
There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Character
They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Time
#Being
I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Women
#Clothes
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Life
#Deep
#Water
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Personality
They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Women
With me, everything's right on the table.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Right
You can love me or you can hate me.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Love
#Hate
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Wonder
I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Want
I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Basketball
I'm not one of those leeching sons of bitches. I want to earn everything I get.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Want
#Sons
I'll be the judge of my own manliness.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Gay
I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Challenge
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.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Example
I'm nothing more than a sports slave.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Nothing
#Sports
I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Trying
I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
If you're going to have sex, use a condom.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Sex
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Feeling
Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Old
#Feet
My rookie year, I was very immature.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Open
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.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Day
#Play
#Property
If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.
Dennis Rodman,
American
Athlete
#Want
#Dress