Sean Waltman Quotes

I've had an alarming amount of concussions.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

When you get hit in the head, you don't recover from that.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.

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.

When you have a concussion, one of the symptoms that is common is anxiety. Imagine having the normal amount of anxieties that everybody shares - about life and meeting people in social spaces, whatever. Imagine that being multiplied by 10, 20. And so your worry over people's perceptions of you multiplies.

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

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

Different people respond differently to head trauma than others.

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.