Philosophical Sayings

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

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

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

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

I never asked to be a role model; I just wanted to be someone who broke the mold.

I've learned that life is too short to waste your time on people who don't respect, appreciate, and value you.

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

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

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

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.

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

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-an…

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.