Dennis Rodman

“I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him.”

“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 understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.”

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

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

“I spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game.”

“I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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