Charlotte Dujardin Quotes

Even wrestling, now, I wear the helmet all the time. I'm not going to make that mistake again ever in my life.

Obviously we will talk about doing everything we can to make our sport as safe as possible.

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

We take safety very, very seriously on every film I make, and that's why I've never had a serious accident or anybody killed when I make a picture.

OSHA had come in and looked at the channel 5 studios and it sort of had something to do with wrestling, but they found that there were some safety concerns that had to be addressed.

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.

Player safety has been an essential focus for us for a number of years.

Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.

I think as an action director; it comes kind of naturally to me to a certain extent, because I've done so much action myself - as my MRIs would suggest!

I knew I had a chance to teach the world something that would help more people be safe.

If I had my accident maybe 10 years ago I wouldn't be here now. The technology we have now, the helmets, can save your life.

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

Kamal Haasan makes sure that his co-artists wear the safety gear when they perform stunts.

I completely fell in love with riding horses. I really didn't want to wear a helmet when I would go off with the trainer on weekends, galloping through forests and stuff. But thank God he made me, because one time, I was going under a tree and my helmet hit a branch. It literally would have taken my head off.

I'm not in the business to get hit and take concussions.

When you play trying to avoid injuries, that's when you get hurt.

You can't predict injuries. That's one thing you can't do.

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

I'd say most stuntmen are injured working with horses. They have a one-celled brain and change their minds right in the middle of a stunt no matter how many times they do it right in rehearsal.

There is no safe blow to the head, especially for a child.

I never had a concussion playing rugby.

Everything we do in general, there's gonna be a percentage of risk. Me, making my entrance to the ring, there's actually a percentage of risk I'm going to trip and fall and hurt myself. Me, getting up on the apron, there's a percentage of risk.

In the summer of 2007, Roger Goodell, the new NFL commissioner, convened a meeting in Chicago for the first league-wide concussion summit. All thirty-two teams were ordered to send doctors and trainers to the meeting.