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

Rodman points to the ambivalence that often accompanies fame: many athletes fantasize about elite status and recognition, yet recoil from the loss of privacy and constant public demands that celebrity brings. The line underscores a gap between the glamorous idea of stardom and its everyday realities—being approached, scrutinized, and treated as public property. Coming from Rodman, whose career combined on-court excellence with intense media attention and a deliberately provocative persona, the remark also reads as a critique of naïve expectations within professional sports. It suggests that wanting the rewards of superstardom without its intrusions is a common, perhaps unavoidable contradiction.