Elana Meyers Quotes

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.

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

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

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

I was in a lecture about concussions and of the 10 symptoms the guy mentioned, I had eight. The symptoms would be, for example, mood swings, getting angry very fast, forgetting some things, having difficulty sleeping.

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 episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

Waking up with a bad head in the morning is difficult sometimes.

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.

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

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.

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

I've hit my head on the rim a couple number of times, back in high school.

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.

The natural instinct when you get concussed, when you get knocked out, as soon as you come up is to get up and fight and keep going.

A lot of people don't realize how severe a concussion injury is. You have to listen to the doctors. You have to be really careful about them.

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon.

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

I have times when I'm off-balance. I have times when I slur my words. I have times when I walk into walls. I have times when I can't remember somebody's name.

I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

God, my brain really goes to mush when I'm pregnant.

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.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

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.