Mick Foley Quotes

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

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've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.

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.

I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

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 had no documented concussions.

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

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.

You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.

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.

The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.

For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.

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.

Even though concussions affect women more often than men, there's not a lot of concussion research about women specifically. You can slip and fall and hit your head and have a concussion. And unless you know what to do, and unless you're able to take the right steps, you may not be able to recover.

I don't think any of us knew the dangers of repeated concussions or the fact that even when you got a concussion, the idea to go get treatment for it never entered our minds. We just didn't have - we weren't educated enough. We were really ignorant to it. I would get concussions in my early 20s racing, and it was a bit of a badge of honor.

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

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

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.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.