"The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound"
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The subtext is a quiet rebuke to basketball’s usual status hierarchy. Rebounding is supposed to be “effort,” a compliment that often doubles as a dismissal. Rodman flips it into a specialized skill: anticipation, timing, and a willingness to collide, recover, and collide again. The repetition is the point. Anyone can jump once; fewer can keep jumping when contact, fatigue, and ego are all telling you the play is over.
Context matters: Rodman built his legend in an era and on teams where his job was to do everything the marquee scorers didn’t want to do. On the Bad Boy Pistons and the Jordan-era Bulls, his identity was engineered around dirty work, and he performed it with the same theatrical certainty other players reserved for scoring. This line is Rodman insisting that hustle can be an art form, and that obsession is a competitive advantage.
It also functions as brand-building. Rodman makes his “nobody else” claim not by pretending to be more talented, but by owning a kind of stubbornness that feels almost unteachable. In a sport obsessed with gifts, he’s selling grit as a superpower.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Rodman, Dennis. (2026, January 15). The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-one-thing-i-do-that-nobody-else-does-is-jump-141062/
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Rodman, Dennis. "The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-one-thing-i-do-that-nobody-else-does-is-jump-141062/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-one-thing-i-do-that-nobody-else-does-is-jump-141062/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




