Gerald Green Quotes

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

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 I was 15 and playing in Kalamazoo, I ran into a light pole on the side of the court and was knocked out for a little while - when I woke up, I was seeing stars!

I've been dropped on my head multiple times.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.

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

I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.

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 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.

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.

Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun?

I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.

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

Ali had a break that was an inch and a half long, and you keep getting hit as hard and as much as I hit Ali, the pain would take over and you would pass out.

It zonked me for three days. I kept falling down and the people at the lab assigned someone to follow me around with a mattress