110+ Dennis Rodman Quotes (Rebounding, Defense And Flamboyant)

Dennis Rodman was an American professional basketball player who played for the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks. He was known for his rebounding ability and defensive skills and was a five-time NBA champion. He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011.

Top 10 Dennis Rodman Quotes

1. If you're going to have sex, use a condom.
2. This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
3. I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.
4. Don't let what other people think decide who you are.
5. My rookie year, I was very immature.
6. I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
7. If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.
8. 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.
9. I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.
10. I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

Dennis Rodman Image Quotes

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks. — Dennis Rodman

Dennis Rodman Short Quotes

• Create havoc, create destruction.
• The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
• I'll be the judge of my own manliness.
• They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
• I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
• My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
• I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
• Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?
• If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.
• I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

Dennis Rodman Famous Quotes And Sayings

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

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

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. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

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

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

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas. — Dennis Rodman

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

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

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

I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive. — Dennis Rodman

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

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women. — Dennis Rodman

I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

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

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

The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete. — Dennis Rodman

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

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape. — Dennis Rodman

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

Some people want to have controversy between the races. — Dennis Rodman

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

I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered. — Dennis Rodman

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

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild. — Dennis Rodman

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. — Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming. — Dennis Rodman

If Lebron was playing in the late 80's and early 90's, just an average player — Dennis Rodman

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

When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried. — Dennis Rodman

The Spurs couldn't put everything aside and just play the damn game. — Dennis Rodman

I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there. — Dennis Rodman

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

It's all about what they can get out of me. — Dennis Rodman

The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn't even know. — Dennis Rodman

You can love me or you can hate me. — Dennis Rodman

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. — Dennis Rodman

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

Maybe my life isn't great. We don't have all the answers. Look at it from my side. — Dennis Rodman

The Bulls talked to just about every person who ever met me. — Dennis Rodman

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. — Dennis Rodman

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

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game. — Dennis Rodman

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?! — Dennis Rodman

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

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

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

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

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. — Dennis Rodman

I don't want to be bulky and stiff. — Dennis Rodman

I don't trust what this life has given me. — Dennis Rodman

My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time. — Dennis Rodman

I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

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

I'm going to come out and tell it like it is. — Dennis Rodman

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home. — Dennis Rodman

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there. — Dennis Rodman

There is so much hypocrisy in sports. — Dennis Rodman

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

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter. — Dennis Rodman

I'm very particular about who I sleep with. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

With me, everything's right on the table. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

This whole huddle thing really pisses me off. — Dennis Rodman

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

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. — Dennis Rodman

I'm nothing more than a sports slave. — Dennis Rodman

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity. — Dennis Rodman

There's no image we can't improve. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

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

I'm just saying I'm being myself, and people understand that. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

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

Life Lessons by Dennis Rodman

1. Dennis Rodman taught us that it is important to stay true to yourself and to never give up on your dreams, no matter how difficult the journey may be.
2. He also showed us that it is possible to rise above adversity and to never let anyone or anything stand in the way of achieving your goals.
3. Lastly, he showed us that success is not measured by material possessions, but by the impact you make on the lives of those around you.