Head Trauma Quotes

Can you let your son's body become the same temperature as your son's head before you turn this into a political campaign against the president? Could you do that?

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

The thing you don't realise is that every time you head the ball, your brain shakes. Every single time. Have you ever headed a ball badly and seen stars for a couple of seconds? That's your brain shaking. Let's be honest: that can't be healthy, can it?

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

When you get a typical injury, you're given a time frame; you're gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you're feeling better. You feel like you're getting better, and it can be one day and you're back to where you started.

Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.

I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.

You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

I've cracked my head open before; I've had some great injuries. So I have to do it on the side now. I cracked my head open kiting before a competition in New Caledonia. The water was shallow, and I missed a trick and hit my head on a rock.

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.

I want to exit from this sport with my head intact.

I've had more than 200 stitches taken in my head.

Different people respond differently to head trauma than others.

I hurt my hand on his head. He has a very hard head.

On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head - real Frankenstein stitches.

The NFL should be more worried about pensions than CTE.

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

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.

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

The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

He [Gerald R. Ford] played too much football with his helmet off.

She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head.