Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

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

But I have vertigo... I lose my equilibrium easily. I can lean out to look at something and just keep leaning and not realize I'm about to fall.

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

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

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

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

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.

You should never wear a baseball cap when working in close quarters in the attic: You never see that beam above you!

I'm trying to adapt - they say you have to adapt to vertigo.

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

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.

I literally pass out when I see blood.

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.

You had no mask, and the coach kept telling you, 'Use your head.' And I did.

On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head - real Frankenstein stitches.

It's great playing a sport where you don't get hit in the head.

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.

You can tell when you look at someone and think 'he's on the brink of fainting' or that certainly something's not right.

Even though concussions affect women more often than men, there's not a lot of concussion research about women specifically. You can slip and fall and hit your head and have a concussion. And unless you know what to do, and unless you're able to take the right steps, you may not be able to recover.

Kids' brains are developing. Their heads are a larger part of their body, and their necks are not as strong as adults' necks. So kids may be at a greater risk of head and brain injuries than adults.

Yeah, I mean there's points in every game where you get a hit and you feel a little woozy. Not every game, but mostly every game you hit someone and you're like, 'Whoa, that was a good one.'

I've been dropped on my head multiple times.

I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

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