Paul Allen Quotes

I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.

It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.

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

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.

At some point, we're going to have to get to the point where, before you play football, I'm going to test you at some stage in your life to determine if you're susceptible to concussions. We need a test that shows us that your brain is situated a certain way that puts you at risk. If you are susceptible, don't play football.

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?

The overwhelming evidence is that trauma is a major factor in CTE.

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

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.

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

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

We, as a league, we have not in any way changed our desire to do everything we can to make it safe, make it safe as to head injury. We hope and will support any data that would give us more insight into any short- and long-term consequences. We would support that.

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

I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.

For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.

I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.

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.

When you get hit in the head, you don't recover from that.

I don't want to be the poster boy for head injury. I shouldn't be the poster boy for head injury. I have really tried to distance myself from that.

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.

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

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.

Different people respond differently to head trauma than others.