Bad as I wanna be by Rodman Dennis 1961-;Keown Tim & Keown Tim

Author:Rodman, Dennis, 1961-;Keown, Tim & Keown, Tim
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Rodman, Dennis, 1961-, Basketball players
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press
Published: 1996-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Bad

As I Wanna Be

what's bad about it for the other team is, that frustration energizes me more. I'm so happy this is happening. I

want to be pushed around and hit

and kneed. The more blood, the better.

I have a psychological edge going into every game. The guy on the other side looks over at me and thinks, God, this guy is SO CFdZJ, SO WJld, that I don't know what he's up to. He won't talk to anybody. He won't look at anybody.

What^s going on in that mind?

1 think that's what happened to Scottie Pippen in the 1991 play-offs. I was all over him that series, and I got fined for it—$5,000 worth—when I pushed him into the stands. After that he got a migraine headache and sat out a game. I think he probably did have a migraine, but I think I might have had a hand in giving it to him.

People don't know how to take me. You talk to coaches—except for Chuck Daly—and other players, and IllEii

DON'T eOW HOW TO REACH ME. That s the way i

like it. I don't want people in the game of basketball around me. I've built up this force field around myself, this mystery, and I don't want to lose that.

After I'd been with the Bulls for a few weeks, Scottie Pippen was asked by Sports Illustrated whether he'd had a conversation with me. Scottie said, ^^l\o«, I have

not had a conversation ivith Dennis. IVe never had a conversation with Dennis in my life, so I don^ thinii it's anything new^ now.''

That's all part of my edge. If other players started to get to know me, they might find out I'm not the same guy they think I am. Then they might start to think they can contain me on the court. I'm not going to give them that opening.

You're going to have to ftttcl tt MVatf tO Stop me on your OWn^ BRO^ and nobody's found it yet.

Not many guys have been through what I've been through. If you've been told from the time you're thirteen

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