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

I understand the seriousness of concussions.

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.

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.'

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

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.

Guys go through concussions sometimes that aren't as noticeable. But they know - the player knows - and they want to go back in the game. You want to play.

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.

My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had multiple, multiple concussions. I had 10 documented concussions, four post-concussion seizures and so, but, with that said, my brain is no worse than your average college football player's brain, right?

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

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.

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.

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.

At the end of the day, concussions are best dealt with between the drivers and their personal physicians.

When you get a typical injury, you're given a time frame; you're gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you're feeling better. You feel like you're getting better, and it can be one day and you're back to where you started.

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.

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

It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.

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.

Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.