Quotes About 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.

One thing that's important to understand is that it's believed that the pathology of CTE doesn't have to do with concussion so much as it has to do with the accumulation of sub-concussive hits. So every hit matters. If you're subject to 800 or 1,200 of these every year, it accumulates. It's like erosion.

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

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.

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

My father was an NFL running back, so I feel like I might be more susceptible, genetically, to CTE.

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

I should be a poster child for CTE.

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

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.

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.

The most important thing to remember is, that, CTE, and head injuries and concussions, they can only really now be... They can now really only be diagnosed after you are dead.

A lot of the CTE stuff, you see in football, and that's because of the constant collision. These guys are doing it every week, and it's not like the running back is getting this problem, or the quarterback, it's the guys on the front line that keep going into each other. It's those guys.

We're hoping that there is large-scale recognition that CTE is a risk when playing football.

The NFL should be more worried about pensions than CTE.

Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.

While we know, on average, that certain positions experience more repetitive head impacts and are more likely at greater risk for CTE, no position is immune.

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

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

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

CTE can be caused by smaller hits to the head over time.

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

Until they study the general population and find out what the likelihood of CTE in a soccer mom is versus an NFL brain, we really have no baseline to rate this study off of.