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

Sometimes I’m not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I’m always looking to do more.

You can love me or you can hate me.

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

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

I’m very particular about who I sleep with.

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

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

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.

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

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

When I was 3, my father stopped coming home.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

I want my fans to feel like we’re always in touch. Because without ’em, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this.

Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.

Any time someone achieves success before they’ve earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.

Richard Fliehr does not make any money.

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.