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Motivation Quote by Dennis Rodman

"As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want"

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Rodman’s line is less a romantic boast than a power audit: fame as a master key, women as proof-of-purchase. Coming from an athlete who built a brand on spectacle, rule-breaking, and tabloid gravity, it lands like an unfiltered confession of how celebrity bends social reality. The phrasing matters. “As long as I play ball” frames desirability as a lease agreement with an end date. Attraction isn’t personal; it’s contingent on relevance. “Any woman I want” collapses women into a prize pool, a marketplace of access where his status is the only currency that counts.

The subtext is both swagger and anxiety. It’s a flex that betrays dependence: the moment the ball stops bouncing, so might the attention. Rodman is naming the trap of sports stardom while also indulging it. He doesn’t claim charm, love, or connection; he claims procurement. That bluntness mirrors the 1990s sports-entertainment era that helped make him famous, when the NBA’s global boom turned players into avatars of hypermasculinity and consumer appetite.

Culturally, the quote reveals how quickly “confidence” can curdle into entitlement when an institution rewards you for winning and performing. It’s not just misogyny as attitude; it’s misogyny as a side effect of an economy where visibility converts to access, and access is mistaken for worth. Rodman’s candor is the uncomfortable part: plenty of public figures believe some version of this, but few say it out loud.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Rodman, Dennis. (2026, January 17). As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-long-as-i-play-ball-i-can-get-any-woman-i-want-48764/

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Rodman, Dennis. "As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-long-as-i-play-ball-i-can-get-any-woman-i-want-48764/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-long-as-i-play-ball-i-can-get-any-woman-i-want-48764/. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.

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Dennis Rodman (born May 13, 1961) is a Athlete from USA.

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