Eric Reid Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I don't want to be the poster boy for head injury. I shouldn't be the poster boy for head injury. I have really tried to distance myself from that.

I don't think any of us knew the dangers of repeated concussions or the fact that even when you got a concussion, the idea to go get treatment for it never entered our minds. We just didn't have - we weren't educated enough. We were really ignorant to it. I would get concussions in my early 20s racing, and it was a bit of a badge of honor.

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

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.

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

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.

I understand the seriousness 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.

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

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.

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.

It's impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.