Dennis Rodman

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.

I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven. I'm a real person, with real experiences, not some image that somebody in the NBA office created.

If you put one hundred black people and one hundred white people in a neighborhood and have them grow up together from childhood, they're going to think of each other as one. They won't draw lines to separate themselves. They won't see it as black-and-white. It would be like one big locker room where people aren't afraid to say whatever they want, knowing it won't be taken the wrong way.

I shouldn't be doing this. I shouldn't be here. I shouldn't be an NBA player. This is all some fantasy world that I have no right to live in. I was just a kid from the projects who was always too skinny or too funny looking to be taken seriously.

When I cross-dress now, it's just another way I can show all the sides of Dennis Rodman. I'm giving you the whole package. I'm becoming the all-purpose person.

Sometimes I get bored with basketball, like I know some fans do. And so I do things to make it more interesting for me, and for them.

Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other fifty percent is money.

I play I'll play for anybody long that that uh they respect me point blank.

I hate the fact that he's doing that [human rights violations], 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.

Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

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

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.

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

I go out with white women. This...

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

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

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

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

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.