Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, CTE Quotes

Subconcussive injuries are brain injuries on top of unrecovered brain injuries.

It doesn't take science to know that when you have head-to-head collisions, there's going to be some effect.

The story of Bennet Omalu is a riveting story; it's just a riveting tale. I knew from the beginning if I stayed close to that kind of storytelling and focussed on the character, then the other stuff comes along with it, and the message becomes baked into the journey.

Junior Seau's CTE finding raises a lot of issues for everyone. He is such a beacon. He was so young when he died. He was an active player for so long. He was such an amazing individual who was well loved by his teammates and his community.

The NFL should be more worried about pensions than CTE.

As the story about CTE got more real, it became more clear that players are playing that without a full understanding of the risks they face, and the long-term effects.

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

What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!

Omalu first found the tau 'threads' in the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster in 2002 and published his findings in 2005, in the journal 'Neurosurgery.'

When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.

Me separating from CTE - I'm extremely happy about that because a lot of guys wrote me off, Jeezy included. He really wrote me off.

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

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.

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

The increased rate of brain disease in the NFL population is caused by the way the game is played within the rules.

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.

I'm concerned about the future of football, because we have paid a lot of attention to concussions. We are more aware of concussions. But it's really the repetitive minor injuries, the ones that are asymptomatic that occur on almost every play of the game, the sub-concussive hits: that's the big problem for football.

I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that... or 'Come on, you got to be tough... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.

Is a concussion going to lead to CTE? No, probably not in most cases. But if you have enough concussions over a certain amount of time, yes, then I think you can lead to CTE.

My generation, people who played with me, they're suffering from football.

The reality is that it's just the nature of the game. It's the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your responsibilities as a player involve those little hits that are going to accumulate. You can't take that out of the game.

[Referring to Jack Kemp:] … a football player who has played too much without his helmet.

The new disease was named chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the NFL fervently and repeatedly denied that such a thing had anything to do with the league or its players.

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

Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease.