Elana Meyers Quotes

I've been concussed I don't know how many times, yeah it's taken a pretty good toll on the body.

I had a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.

If I have another concussion and I don't feel like I can play anymore, then I won't.

Luckily, I'm only aware of about two or three concussions that I have had, but there's really no way of telling how many overall.

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

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

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.

I've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do.

I've got my bell rung, and when I first came in the league, the term wasn't 'concussion,' it was 'getting dinged' or 'had your bell rung.' So I had my bell rung a few times.

I've been dropped on my head multiple times.

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

I have learned the hard way that concussions are not fun.

I had two concussions that were of major concern, what I would term very significant. As far as head injury goes, I would say all of the others were pretty minor and inconsequential.

When people say that you kind of just get - you know, just feel like a little buzzed or dazed or had your bell rung - they consider that a concussion. I wouldn't. But if that is considered a concussion, I would say any football player at least records 50 to 100 in the course of a year.

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

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.

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

We, as a league, we have not in any way changed our desire to do everything we can to make it safe, make it safe as to head injury. We hope and will support any data that would give us more insight into any short- and long-term consequences. We would support that.

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

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.

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.

My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?