Kris Kristofferson Quotes

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

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

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.'

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

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

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.

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.

I think, a lot of guys, when they get, you know, those hits or those concussions, they think, 'OK, well, I'm just going to kind of play through it here for the short term, and it's going to get better.' I would venture to say probably 100 percent of the guys that played my sport in the NFL have been there.

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

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has been like that for a long time, for ages.

If I have another concussion and I don't feel like I can play anymore, then I won't.