Lucy Walker Quotes

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

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've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do.

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.

They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

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

While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries.

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.

As long as we're wearing helmets and shoulder pads - there's collisions between these big, physical, fast guys - head injuries are going to be a part of it.

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.

They call it football, but the object of the game is to bash the other guy so hard that he's eventually carried off the field on a stretcher. I can't watch football anymore. My psychiatrist said it's better that way. I used to watch a game, see the players in a huddle - and think they were talking about me.

Football is a violent sport, but you know what you sign up for when you put those shoulder pads on. I agree with certain aspects of it. I disagree with certain aspects of it. I've had concussions and I'm still here. I still love the sport. I think I'm still very healthy.

After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than the stroke, the impact that concussions have had on my life, particularly as I get older.

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

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

Over the course of my 13-year career, I've had a lot of concussions, and yet, because I'm no longer competing or suffering from concussion symptoms, I felt like I was in the clear. The reality, though, is that I get concussions far more easily, and my symptoms last far longer than ever before.

Mental illness is real, and I got them. I don't know if it's the multiple concussions or the lifestyle choices.

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

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?