Johny Hendricks Quotes

I'm pretty stubborn.

I've had knee trouble, and I worry about my shoulder, but I think my weakest link is my head. A helmet can only do so much, and I have seen the effects of brain injuries. That is a big fear. I think everyone's weakest link is their brain because it's their most fragile link.

I'm stubborn.

If you put a brick on my head and break it, I will be fine.

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

I'm a stubborn individual.

I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.

I'm a pretty stubborn guy. I don't quit too easily.

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.

I am stubborn and I am hardheaded.

I am obstinate and I will not give in.

Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

I think I was born stubborn, that's all.

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

Be too dumb to quit and too stubborn to back off.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

If you tell me I can't do something, it just makes me want to do it more.

Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

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.