Dennis Rodman

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

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

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

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

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

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

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

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

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

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

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

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

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

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.

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

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

My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

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

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.

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.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

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

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

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

With me, everything's right on the table.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?

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

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

You can love me or you can hate me.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'll be the judge of my own manliness.

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