Ed Reed Quotes

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

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.

After the situation I had with my concussion in 2015, how long and lasting the effects were, I'm just more careful about it.

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.'

The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than the stroke, the impact that concussions have had on my life, particularly as I get older.

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.

Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.

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 want to leave this sport with a little bit of my brains left.

Guys go through concussions sometimes that aren't as noticeable. But they know - the player knows - and they want to go back in the game. You want to play.

Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we're also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.

We've now found CTE in former NFL players who played every position except kicker.

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've been concussed I don't know how many times, yeah it's taken a pretty good toll on the body.

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

Dementia pugilistica was discovered in 1928... And we still have boxing. Football will continue.

They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.

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

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say that information on brain injury in football was withheld from them.

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.

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.

I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.

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