Calvin Johnson Quotes

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

I broke my nose and got a concussion when I was 13.

Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

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 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.

The one time I'd ever babysat, the kid ran into a glass door and got a concussion.

After the situation I had with my concussion in 2015, how long and lasting the effects were, I'm just more careful about it.

I am concussed," I announced, entirely sure of my self-diagnosis.

I think I'm a little concussed.

When you get a typical injury, you're given a time frame; you're gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you're feeling better. You feel like you're getting better, and it can be one day and you're back to where you started.

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.

He played football too long without a helmet.

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

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 a concussion I didn't get over for three years. I think that's why I'm goofy.

We, as a league, we have not in any way changed our desire to do everything we can to make it safe, make it safe as to head injury. We hope and will support any data that would give us more insight into any short- and long-term consequences. We would support that.

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.

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.

When you get hit in the head, you don't recover from that.

I'm amazed people talk about my helmet - saying it makes me feel psychologically better. I would love to play without it, but I'm not allowed to by the doctor. As long as I'm told by the doctor I'm running too much risk to play without it, I'll play with it. There's no other way for me.

I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

I've been dropped on my head multiple times.

I want to exit from this sport with my head intact.