Brian Urlacher Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

I've had no documented concussions.

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.

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The natural instinct when you get concussed, when you get knocked out, as soon as you come up is to get up and fight and keep going.

A lot of people don't realize how severe a concussion injury is. You have to listen to the doctors. You have to be really careful about them.

When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-old heart attack victim. His file and the television reports of the death of the former Pittsburgh Steelers center described a long, steep fall into bizarre behavior. I suspected he suffered from some sort of brain disorder.

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

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