Calvin Johnson Quotes

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

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.

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.

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.

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

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

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.

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

I think I had four concussions throughout my career that were diagnosed, and I guess that I've had seven more. But the fact that three of them came in a four month span when I was making a comeback in 2004 is a little bit scary.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

Is a concussion going to lead to CTE? No, probably not in most cases. But if you have enough concussions over a certain amount of time, yes, then I think you can lead to CTE.

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

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

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

A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.

When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's called 'a concussion.'

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

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.

For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.