Concussions Quotes

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

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

I've been hit with kendo sticks and chairs; I've been thrown through tables, broke my ankle, broke my nose, and have had concussions in WWE, but nothing has hurt me more than when I stubbed my toe in 'The Marine 3: Homefront.'

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

I've had an ACL replaced in my left knee, ACL replaced in my right knee, 50 percent of my meniscus taken out of my right knee, lower back fusion, C-6, C-7 fused in my neck, C-5, C-4 disk replacement, C-4, C-3 fused. I have 26, 27 concussions, hundreds of stitches. I've been through the grinder.

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

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

You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.

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.

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has been like that for a long time, for ages.

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.

Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue.

Of course I've had a bunch of broken bones, sprains and I've had five or six concussions, with three serious ones. I also got a real heavy duty blood clot and internal bleeding from where I was shot in the stomach with a beanbag bullet that the police use for crowd control. I've also had six stitches in my head.

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.

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

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.

The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.

My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really wanted him to play football, but now I'm thankful he didn't.

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

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.

They were just accidents. Luke said he was just testing my concussion. I'm not mad at him.

There might not be kicking in the NFL by the time I get to 45.

A lot of people believe that I retired from the game of football because of concussions - that is not accurate. I really retired primarily because of a degenerative back condition that I had.