Top 100 Dennis Rodman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.”

— Dennis Rodman

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2. “Don’t let what other people think decide who you are.”

— Dennis Rodman

3. “You can love me or you can hate me.”

— Dennis Rodman

4. “I have one regret, I wish I was a better father.”

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman

6. “This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can’t see how deep it is.”

— Dennis Rodman

7. “If I die young, everybody’s going to say they saw it coming.”

— Dennis Rodman

8. “If you have a problem with my answer that’s your problem, not my problem.”

— Dennis Rodman

9. “Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.”

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman

11. “I go out with white women. This...”

— Dennis Rodman

12. “The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.”

— Dennis Rodman

13. “There is so much hypocrisy in sports.”

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman

15. “I’m hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.”

— Dennis Rodman

16. “I’m just saying I’m being myself, and people understand that.”

— Dennis Rodman

17. “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

18. “My last year with the Spurs, I was late to practice one time.”

— Dennis Rodman

19. “I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.”

— Dennis Rodman

20. “I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.”

— Dennis Rodman

21. “Create havoc, create destruction.”

— Dennis Rodman

22. “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

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

— Dennis Rodman

24. “I couldn’t care less if the guy I’m guarding has HIV. I’m going to slam him anyway.”

— Dennis Rodman

25. “The life I was leading was changing me into someone I didn’t even know.”

— Dennis Rodman

26. “I’ll be the judge of my own manliness.”

— Dennis Rodman

27. “Maybe my life isn’t great. We don’t have all the answers. Look at it from my side.”

— Dennis Rodman

28. “If I want to wear a dress, I’ll wear a dress.”

— Dennis Rodman

29. “Everybody’s talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?”

— Dennis Rodman

30. “As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.”

— Dennis Rodman

31. “I’m very particular about who I sleep with.”

— Dennis Rodman

32. “When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.”

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman

34. “Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.”

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman

36. “They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you’re looking at him. Elvis isn’t dead; he just changed color.”

— Dennis Rodman

37. “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

38. “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

39. “I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in ’95.”

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman

41. “I didn’t want to be known as Madonna’s playboy, her boy toy.”

— Dennis Rodman

42. “Wherever there’s money, there’s drugs, so to say drugs don’t exist in the NBA would be stupid.”

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman

44. “I’ve been homeless. I’ve worked at 7-Eleven.”

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman

47. “I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.”

— Dennis Rodman

48. “I’m the basketball version of a gravedigger.”

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman

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

— Dennis Rodman