Mandy Bujold Quotes

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 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.

The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers.

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

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.

My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really wanted him to play football, but now I'm thankful he didn't.

Even wrestling, now, I wear the helmet all the time. I'm not going to make that mistake again ever in my life.

You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.

I'm learning how to prevent my brain from getting worse than it is after suffering a career worth of concussions playing football.

It makes common sense that children, whose brains are rapidly developing, should not be hitting their heads hundreds of times per season.

For some reason, I have a thick skull.

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

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

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

I think the one thing I can say is not to play through concussions. I think that's unwise.

If you have a young student, don't let him take too many punches to the head. There's the right moment to do a hard training, but it can't be every day. A good coach takes care of your student.

Everybody in wrestling is looking at the information coming in on concussions. Everyone from the NFL to the WWE to TNA to the youth soccer groups around the country are realizing that there are dangers that weren't previously known.

Football has always been violent. In the early days of the game, they didn't wear hard helmets. They wore soft helmets, which were just designed to protect the ears. In the '40s and '50s they began to introduce hard helmets, which provided much more protection against things like skull fractures.

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

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.

Obviously we will talk about doing everything we can to make our sport as safe as possible.

He played football too long without a helmet.

Head and neck injuries are what parents thinking about letting their children play tackle football should be thinking about, talking about, and demanding answers about, from any coach presenting himself as a worthy custodian for their child's introduction to tackle football.

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

I don't actually think boxing is a particularly dangerous sport, I wouldn't even put it in the top ten of dangerous sports, but that's only if you take it seriously. Whenever I stepped into the ring I was well hydrated, I was at the right weight and I was prepared. It wasn't a dangerous sport for me.