Rodman Quotes & Sayings

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground. — Rodman Philbrick

Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are? — Bill Walton

I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

I have one regret, I wish I was a better father. — Dennis Rodman

I go out with white women. This ... — Dennis Rodman

I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows. — Rodman Philbrick

I don't feel anything when I watch Shaquille O'Neal play. I don't feel anything coming off him. — Dennis Rodman

I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven. — Dennis Rodman

It's all about what they can get out of me. — Dennis Rodman

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like. — Rodman Philbrick

You can take him, right?" he asks a couple minutes later.
I go, "Are you kidding? You can't just fight Blade, you have to fight his gang, too."
"You mean you couldn't take him and I was giving him lip? — Rodman Philbrick

If you're going to have sex, use a condom. — Dennis Rodman

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you — Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone. — Rodman Philbrick

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose. — Dennis Rodman

I hate the fact that he's doing that, 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. — Dennis Rodman

I only weigh 220, so I have to do something to keep from being tossed around by all the guys who weigh 250 and more. I train hard, but I don't try to get too big. — Dennis Rodman

With me, everything's right on the table. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

Kim Jong Un shaved his eyebrows and got his hair sticking right up. How would you like the leader of your country looking like Lady Gaga? Even Dennis Rodman told him he looks weird. — David Letterman

I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade. — Rodman Philbrick

MASSIVES, fat heads who assume that television tells the truth" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165 — Rodman Philbrick

I never had a brian till freak came along.. — Rodman Philbrick

I wanted to make the world of 'The Last Book in the Universe' as real as possible, so I spent a lot of time thinking about it. I decided the world would be a very different place, but people would be pretty much the same. — Rodman Philbrick

I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front. — Rodman Philbrick

I assumed 'Freak the Mighty' was probably too weird and melodramatic to find a publisher. I certainly never expected the book to have a profound influence on my career as a writer, but indeed it has. — Rodman Philbrick

You can love me or you can hate me. — Dennis Rodman

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

There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look. — Dennis Rodman

Shut up!" I say, holding my hands to my ears. "Shut up!"
But the stupid gummy won't shut up; he's trying to tell me something important even though I'm covering my ears and I don't want to hear it and I don't want to think about who I am or what's wrong with me or why I'm out here at the edge of the Urb, at the edge of the known world, listening to some old mope who's so crazy, he think about the future when everyone knows that the future doesn't exist. — Rodman Philbrick

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color. — Dennis Rodman

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

Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together. — Rodman Philbrick

The Bulls talked to just about every person who ever met me. — Dennis Rodman

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

These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing. — Dennis Rodman

I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie. — Dennis Rodman

I'm not a playwright; I'm a writer who loves theater. — Rodman Philbrick

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

BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161 — Rodman Philbrick

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing. — Rodman Philbrick

Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie. — Rodman Philbrick

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

I don't want to be bulky and stiff. — Dennis Rodman

I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am. — Rodman Philbrick

Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running. — Rodman Philbrick

People are threatened by me. Rich white, rich blacks, it doesn't matter. — Dennis Rodman

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be. — Dennis Rodman

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

My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman. — Rob Lowe

I was confused as a kid. I was confused about my sexual identity. — Dennis Rodman

There is so much hypocrisy in sports. — Dennis Rodman

Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas ... Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest. — Dennis Rodman

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. — Dennis Rodman

O, pleasant is the welcome kiss
When day's dull round is o'er;
And sweet the music of the step
That meets us at the door. — Joseph Rodman Drake

Soon after publishing a book for kids, my mailbox began to fill with letters from children all across America. Not because my novels for young readers are bestsellers - they're not by a long shot - but because today's kids love to write to authors. — Rodman Philbrick

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

I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points. — Shaquille O'Neal

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

If you're looking for unconditional love, you're really looking to be parented. And that's not an attractive quality in any adult person.

Whenever I hear someone say, "But I want to be loved unconditionally," I cringe. What does that even mean? That you want to be your most basic, infantile self and still be adored by your partner? That your parents didn't give you the unconditional love you needed to feel whole so you're still out there looking for it? If that's the case, know the healing can only come from inside you. No other adult on this planet can fix that for you. If you lucked out and got unconditional love from your parents and you're seeking a partner to replicate that, you're signing up for big disappointment. Really big. — Abby Rodman

There's no image we can't improve. — Dennis Rodman

I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do. — Rodman Philbrick

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes, — Dennis Rodman

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

It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you - even if you have to act like a pig. — Rodman Philbrick

What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that's what I mean about that. — Dennis Rodman

If the North wanted to hack anything in the world, anything in the world, really, they are going to go hack a movie? Really?! — Dennis Rodman

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

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

Obviously the extremists want to provoke sectarian warfare, and I am struck by the fact that over a three-year period, leaders of the (Iraqi) communities have been quite resistant to this. The test is whether the political process continues. — Peter Rodman

He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me. — Dennis Rodman

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

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults. — Rodman Philbrick

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. — Dennis Rodman

I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read. — Rodman Philbrick

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

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

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home. — Dennis Rodman

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

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours — Rodman Philbrick

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women. — Dennis Rodman

I'll be the judge of my own manliness. — Dennis Rodman

Good riddance to bad rubbish. — Rodman Philbrick

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

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

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

I thought it was pathetic: The league just decided that Grant Hill would go right to the top. — Dennis Rodman

Madonna wasn't an acrobat or anything, but the sex was good. I could tell she liked it. — Dennis Rodman

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

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

You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm, and I set it for two in the morning and wear the headphones to bed, but before you can wake up you have to fall asleep, and I never DO fall asleep because I keep waiting for the alarm to go off. — Rodman Philbrick

For the last week or so it's like getting jabbed with a little needle every time I hear that word. Gram is trying to pretend how excited she is I'm finally in the eighth grade, like this is a really big deal. Which is a joke, because the only reason I got passed from seventh grade is because they figured this way the big butthead can be - quote - someone else's problem, thank God, we've had quite enough of Maxwell Kane - unquote. — Rodman Philbrick

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example. — Dave Barry

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

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching — Rodman Philbrick

What a goon, except it really is funny, me trying to sneeze a hot dog through my nose, and we're both laughing like total morons. — Rodman Philbrick

READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary
"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167 — Rodman Philbrick

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