Jim Jefferies Quotes

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.

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.

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 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.

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

I've hit my head on the rim a couple number of times, back in high school.

After the situation I had with my concussion in 2015, how long and lasting the effects were, I'm just more careful about it.

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

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

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

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

When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his skull, and lost sight in one eye.

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.

When I was 15 and playing in Kalamazoo, I ran into a light pole on the side of the court and was knocked out for a little while - when I woke up, I was seeing stars!

I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.

It's impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.

When you get hit in the head, you don't recover from that.

I don't want to be the poster boy for head injury. I shouldn't be the poster boy for head injury. I have really tried to distance myself from that.

I've had concussions, and I'm still here. I still love the sport.