Brian Urlacher Quotes

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

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.

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

I was in a lecture about concussions and of the 10 symptoms the guy mentioned, I had eight. The symptoms would be, for example, mood swings, getting angry very fast, forgetting some things, having difficulty sleeping.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I have been very blessed in that I have been completely fine. No headaches, no depression... absolutely no signs of post-concussion syndrome.

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.

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.

Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?' 'You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?