John Layfield Quotes

[Referring to Jack Kemp:] … a football player who has played too much without his helmet.

The overwhelming evidence is that trauma is a major factor in CTE.

I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.

We're hoping that there is large-scale recognition that CTE is a risk when playing football.

Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease.

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.

The trouble with boxing is that too often it ends in sadness.

What is the purpose of education if not, at a minimum, to prepare people for work?

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.

If you lose a race or game in hockey, you lose a game. That's it. If you lose a fight you might lose part of your brain because of the damage.

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

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

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.

My father was an NFL running back, so I feel like I might be more susceptible, genetically, to CTE.

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

We've now found CTE in former NFL players who played every position except kicker.

One thing that's important to understand is that it's believed that the pathology of CTE doesn't have to do with concussion so much as it has to do with the accumulation of sub-concussive hits. So every hit matters. If you're subject to 800 or 1,200 of these every year, it accumulates. It's like erosion.

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

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.

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

What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!

It's all about making sure kids can have access to educational opportunities... you may not need a necessarily traditional college environment, but access to trades and employment development.

The beginnings of CTE can start quite early.

I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.

Omalu first found the tau 'threads' in the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster in 2002 and published his findings in 2005, in the journal 'Neurosurgery.'