Daniel Bryan Quotes

I'm learning how to prevent my brain from getting worse than it is after suffering a career worth of concussions playing football.

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

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

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

All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.

I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

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.

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

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 father was an NFL running back, so I feel like I might be more susceptible, genetically, to CTE.

Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we're also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.

CTE can be caused by smaller hits to the head over time.

The overwhelming evidence is that trauma is a major factor in CTE.

I think, a lot of guys, when they get, you know, those hits or those concussions, they think, 'OK, well, I'm just going to kind of play through it here for the short term, and it's going to get better.' I would venture to say probably 100 percent of the guys that played my sport in the NFL have been there.

I had one major concussion. It's different for each guy. For me, it was never an issue because I didn't have an issue with concussions.

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

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

If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer's brain, couldn't it also destroy a football player's brain? Surely someone in the history of football had thought to look for dementia pugilistica. Unlike boxers, football players wear helmets, but a helmet can't fully protect the head from damaging impact.

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

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 thing you don't realise is that every time you head the ball, your brain shakes. Every single time. Have you ever headed a ball badly and seen stars for a couple of seconds? That's your brain shaking. Let's be honest: that can't be healthy, can 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 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.'