Top 33 Dennis Rodman Quotes

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

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

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

With me, everything’s right on the table.

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

You can love me or you can hate me.

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

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

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

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 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.

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

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 NBA’s chosen ones think I’m setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.

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

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

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

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

I don’t trust what this life has given me.

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

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.

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

I’ve been homeless. I’ve worked at 7-Eleven.

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

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

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

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

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

I’m the basketball version of a gravedigger.