Sheamus Quotes

But now there are more concussions due to not being used to the hard hitting.

I would advise kids not to play any sports, such as tackle football, where they are exposed to repeated blows to the head.

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.

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

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

Yeah, I mean there's points in every game where you get a hit and you feel a little woozy. Not every game, but mostly every game you hit someone and you're like, 'Whoa, that was a good one.'

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.

My opinion, football is the most dangerous sport there is. After that, I'll give it to probably boxing.

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.

He played football too long without a helmet.

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

Any time you get on the field, there's a possible chance of that happening. I think you're trying to make a play, and there is an inherent risk where you could get blindsided.

I would bet you that even though people think I absorbed an inordinate number of head injuries, I'd say relative to the number of guys who have played this game, I would say that my head injuries were relatively small.

As long as we're having contact and as long as there are collisions, there's going to be head injuries. What the long-term consequences are of that, we're beginning to learn, and that definitely will have an impact on the game as we know it.

I wouldn't let my children play football.

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

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.

Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.

A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

I think I'm a little concussed.

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.

To recognize that head injuries were as essential a part of football as they are of boxing would be to erase the fine distinction on which the game's respectability rested.

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