Rodman Quotes

#1. BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161

Rodman Philbrick

#2. What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from.

Wallace Stegner

#3. The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

Dave Barry

#4. If it were evenly distributed," said Rodman, "the example of justice in the world might lead at last to a sane world policy. As it is, there is world despair and fury over the selfish fortune of a few, and all behave irrationally in revenge.

Isaac Asimov

#5. My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman.

Rob Lowe

#6. Kim Jong Un shaved his eyebrows and got his hair sticking right up. How would you like the leader of your country looking like Lady Gaga? Even Dennis Rodman told him he looks weird.

David Letterman

#7. Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

Mike Tyson

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

Dennis Rodman

#9. MASSIVES, fat heads who assume that television tells the truth" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165

Rodman Philbrick

#10. READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167

Rodman Philbrick

#11. I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.

Shaquille O'Neal

#12. 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.

Dennis Rodman

#13. I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#14. Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?

Bill Walton

#15. I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater.

Rodman Philbrick

#16. 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

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

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

Dennis Rodman

#20. Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

#22. 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.

Dennis Rodman

#23. I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

Rodman Philbrick

#24. What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

#26. I wanted to make the world of 'The Last Book in the Universe' as real as possible, so I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I decided the world would be a very different place, but people would be pretty much the same.

Rodman Philbrick

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

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#29. 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.

Dennis Rodman

#30. I have vivid memories of junior high school. I didn't quite know how to deal with kids and make friends and all of that. If you talked to people who knew me at the time, they'd think I was a popular kid in school. But boy, I didn't feel that.

Rodman Philbrick

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

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#32. 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.

Dennis Rodman

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

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#34. As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

#37. Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

#40. I'm fighting against becoming soft. That's the worst thing you can say to a basketball player.

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

#42. I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has.

Rodman Philbrick

#43. Dead man has nothin' to lose, nothin' to be feared of. Now I'm back among the living and scared to death about what happens next.
- Samuel Reed

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

#48. It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

Rodman Philbrick

#49. It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you - even if you have to act like a pig.

Rodman Philbrick

#50. And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

Joseph Rodman Drake

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

Dennis Rodman

#52. O, pleasant is the welcome kiss
When day's dull round is o'er;
And sweet the music of the step
That meets us at the door.

Joseph Rodman Drake

#53. You can't mess around with young readers - you have to cut straight to the heart of the story. The character can be complex, the plot can have some surprises, but the emotions have to be clear.

Rodman Philbrick

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

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

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

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

Dennis Rodman

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

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

Dennis Rodman

#61. There's no image we can't improve.

Dennis Rodman

#62. You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

Rodman Philbrick

#63. After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

#68. Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.

Joseph Rodman Drake

#69. 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.

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

#71. 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

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

Dennis Rodman

#73. I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

Rodman Philbrick

#74. Flag of the free heart's hope and home! By angel hands to valour given, Thy stars have lit the welkin dome; And all thy hues were born in heaven.

Joseph Rodman Drake

#75. I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

#77. Books are like truth serum
if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

Rodman Philbrick

#78. That does it. It can't be true love. Mr. Willow has eyes like a sick kitten. You might love a sick kitten but you don't marry it, you keep it as a pet.

Rodman Philbrick

#79. Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.

Rodman Philbrick

#80. I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

#82. 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

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

#87. There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

#89. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Rodman Philbrick

#90. 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

#91. I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.

Rodman Philbrick

#92. So long as you tell a story that falls within the fairly generous boundaries of the suspense novel, you're free to make the novel as good as you can. You're allowed to challenge the reader. You can experiment with voice and style.

Rodman Philbrick

#93. 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.

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman

#95. Remembering is just an invention of the mind ... It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not ... You don't need a time machine if you can remember.

Rodman Philbrick

#96. I never had a brian till freak came along..

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

#98. Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.

Rodman Philbrick

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

Dennis Rodman

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

Dennis Rodman