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Motivation Quote by Dennis Rodman

"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"

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Rodman’s body has always been his loudest argument, and this quote turns that spectacle into a survival narrative. The blunt tally - “At least 50 times” - isn’t just bravado; it’s a ledger. He’s counting escapes the way some people count championships, which reframes danger as routine labor. When he stacks images like stunts (“jumped off a building,” “off a cliff in a car”) next to something intimate and chaotic (“bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns”), he collapses the boundary between public risk and private turmoil. The subtext: the adrenaline didn’t end when the cameras did.

It also works because it’s disarmingly unpolished. Rodman doesn’t give you a clean arc of trauma-to-redemption. He gives you fragments, the way people actually remember crisis: in flashes, in locations, in objects. That messiness becomes its own credibility. The sentence structure is almost breathless, like he’s still outrunning the moment.

Culturally, Rodman’s persona was marketed as joyful transgression - hair dye, piercings, tabloid romance, the “bad boy” who made rebellion look fun. This quote quietly flips the brand: maybe the chaos wasn’t performance but proximity. The intent feels less like confession for sympathy and more like staking a claim over his own myth: you can laugh at the costume, but you don’t get to pretend the stakes were fake.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Rodman, Dennis. (2026, January 17). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-least-50-times-ive-jumped-off-a-building-56662/

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Rodman, Dennis. "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." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-least-50-times-ive-jumped-off-a-building-56662/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/at-least-50-times-ive-jumped-off-a-building-56662/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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