Pat McAfee Quotes

I want to leave this sport with a little bit of my brains left.

I'm not in the business to get hit and take concussions.

I'm impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

It's great playing a sport where you don't get hit in the head.

It's lucky I haven't been in a bad tackle. I could be prepared, but if my body gets wrenched in the wrong way, I can't help that.

Have I ever left the field with a broken nose, black eye? Yes, numerous times. I've had a broken nose and a few black eyes. It's part and parcel of the game, really.

That's football. It's going to happen. Guys are going to get hurt.

Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

In soccer, you don't want to see anybody get hurt.

When you play trying to avoid injuries, that's when you get hurt.

I've seen guys get hurt from strikes. I've seen guys get hurt from flips. It's the risk we take. I feel the fear of getting hurt will get you hurt.

I never had a concussion playing rugby.

But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of 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.

I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.

The last time I played rugby, I busted my nose bad, and that's incentive not to get down and dirty in the park anymore.

You've got to be careful of guys trying to chop-block you. You know, running backs, the receivers. You've got to just hope that your knees are fine and you can avoid those chop blocks.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

We don't want our players getting hurt.

If you're gonna do action movies, you're gonna get an injury at some point. It's inevitable.

Injuries are a part of the game. Every athlete knows that.

I get paid to get hit in the head.