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
If you have a problem with my answer that's your problem, not my problem.
With me, everything's right on the table.
Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.
This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
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.
My rookie year, I was very immature.
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.
I'm starting to see players copy what I do. I'm flattered.
I'll be the judge of my own manliness.
I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.
I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.
I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.
I don't trust what this life has given me.
I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
You can love me or you can hate me.
Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
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.
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.
My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.
I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.
I'm nothing more than a sports slave.
I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.
I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.
I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway.
Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
Why should I try to make you believe the things I believe in?
To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.
There's one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.
The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete.
Karl Malone's too high-class for a bum like me.
I've got to give Larry Bird his due; he was a great player. He knew the game and he was smart.
I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.
I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.
I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.
