Becky Sauerbrunn Quotes

Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.

It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

That's football. It's going to happen. Guys are going to get hurt.

I would advise kids not to play any sports, such as tackle football, where they are exposed to repeated blows to the head.

The doctors have said that they don't want me in the ring bouncing around or getting picked up and slammed down. They said the old head just can't survive anymore trauma.

He played football too long without a helmet.

[Referring to Jack Kemp:] … a football player who has played too much without his helmet.

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

Boxing is a great example of it, but in football, sometimes you're taking greater hits than boxers. When you have one man going full speed against another man, and those heads are colliding, it's just the fact of science you're going to have results.

Have I ever left the field with a broken nose, black eye? Yes, numerous times. I've had a broken nose and a few black eyes. It's part and parcel of the game, really.

As long as we're having contact and as long as there are collisions, there's going to be head injuries. What the long-term consequences are of that, we're beginning to learn, and that definitely will have an impact on the game as we know it.

I don't ever want to be a punch drunk.

Everybody in wrestling is looking at the information coming in on concussions. Everyone from the NFL to the WWE to TNA to the youth soccer groups around the country are realizing that there are dangers that weren't previously known.

Being injured is something that happens in this sport. Anybody who gets into it understands that.

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've separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I've messed up my knee a million times. I've broken my foot in several places. I've broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It's part of the game.

As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.

An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.

If you talk to anyone who's done a stair fall, there's not one stair fall, no matter how many pads you have on or how protected you are, where you don't hurt something really bad.

Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

He [Gerald R. Ford] played too much football with his helmet off.

Injuries are a big factor when you're trying to go on a championship run.