Quotes About Concussion

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

Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.

I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.

When the President of the United States comes out and says, 'If I had boys, I wouldn't let them play tackle football,' that's a big punch to the gut for our sport.

You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

I don't think my memory of that night is ever coming back." "Do you want me to hit you on the head with a coconut? It works on Gilligan's Island.

I just thought to myself, 'What am I doing? Is this how I'm going to live my adult life, banging my head, especially with what I've learned and know about the dangers?'

One of the things about concussion that can be quite difficult is sometimes it can be delayed you can be batting for another four or five overs then suddenly the grandstand is shaking or something is different.

You can't be in the locker room reading 'League of Denial.'

Do I have a concussion?" "I don't know," she says. "Is my nose broken?" "And you have a concussion," she says.

But the sound frightened Isaac. The thudding, he knew, was caused by great deep-ocean swells falling upon the beach. Most days the Gulf was as placid as a big lake, with surf that did not crash but rather wore itself away on the sand. The first swells had arrived Friday. Now the booming was louder and heavier, each concussion more profound.

Ultimately the specialists that I've seen and spoken to, if you do get a whack on the head and there's a small sort of concussion, and then you go and get another whack on the head within minutes, then that's when the damage can be done. And I think that's where we can potentially protect the players a lot more.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

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Look on the bright side," Dixon said. "Maybe you gave the guy a concussion. Maybe he doesn't remember who he is, let alone who you are.

We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?

Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.

My lone concussion occurred in 2003 against Denver. I was spinning off block and right when I spun, I hit Clinton Portis with my head turned sideways. I hit him and I hit the ground. That was first big one where I was like 'Whoa.' Back then, it was no big deal.

If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, if you feel like you've got a concussion, the biggest thing is rest, man. Cause you usually compound your injury so much if you go back out there, and we all know that now.

A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.