Calvin Johnson Quotes

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?

It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.

In boxing, you've got CTE from head trauma constantly.

If I have another concussion and I don't feel like I can play anymore, then I won't.

Luckily, I'm only aware of about two or three concussions that I have had, but there's really no way of telling how many overall.

It's just a matter of sometimes the CTE in your brain affects what happens in your life... and sometimes... it does not.

I'm learning how to prevent my brain from getting worse than it is after suffering a career worth of concussions playing football.

I've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do.

I've got my bell rung, and when I first came in the league, the term wasn't 'concussion,' it was 'getting dinged' or 'had your bell rung.' So I had my bell rung a few times.

I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

I think, a lot of guys, when they get, you know, those hits or those concussions, they think, 'OK, well, I'm just going to kind of play through it here for the short term, and it's going to get better.' I would venture to say probably 100 percent of the guys that played my sport in the NFL have been there.

I think I had four concussions throughout my career that were diagnosed, and I guess that I've had seven more. But the fact that three of them came in a four month span when I was making a comeback in 2004 is a little bit scary.

All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.

I would bet you that even though people think I absorbed an inordinate number of head injuries, I'd say relative to the number of guys who have played this game, I would say that my head injuries were relatively small.

I've had cumulative concussions and realized that's something you carry with you.

I had two concussions that were of major concern, what I would term very significant. As far as head injury goes, I would say all of the others were pretty minor and inconsequential.

A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.

When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.