Dennis Rodman Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#6. 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.

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. I don't want to be bulky and stiff.

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#10. 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.

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

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#12. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#27. I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top.

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#28. I have one regret, I wish I was a better father.

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

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#30. I'm very particular about who I sleep with.

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#31. I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

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

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#33. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#38. He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

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#39. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#44. My rookie year, I was very immature.

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#45. 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.

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#46. He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.

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

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

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

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

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

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#52. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#57. I go out with white women. This ...

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

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

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

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#61. My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

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#62. I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

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#63. 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.

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

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#65. I hate the fact that he's doing that, but the fact is that, you know what, that's a human being, though. He let his guard down one day to me, a friend.

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

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

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

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

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#70. When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

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

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#72. This whole huddle thing really pisses me off.

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

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

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#75. I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

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

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

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#78. I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.

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

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#80. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#85. 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.

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#86. With me, everything's right on the table.

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#87. Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?

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#88. There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

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#89. I don't trust what this life has given me.

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#90. 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.

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#91. 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.

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

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

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#94. 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.

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

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

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

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#98. 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.

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

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

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