Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you? - It protects my head.

Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??

I do not have a helmet. But this is a wig, so it's a little protective.

Obviously we will talk about doing everything we can to make our sport as safe as possible.

The truth is, what Americans enjoy about football is much of what makes the sport dangerous. However, I believe there must be a way to find the art of success and vitality in football, without the driving the level of impact that causes serious risk of head trauma, paralysis and other life-changing injuries.

If you put a brick on my head and break it, I will be fine.

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.

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.

I've kind of banned myself from motorcycles. I've had broken ribs, broken shoulder, wrists, leg, broken collarbone - and it was all from motocross or rugby. All of my injuries have come from outside of sailing.

You have to prepare yourself physically as much as possible for a bad wipeout.

We will play football. We will box and play lacrosse and ice hockey and snowboard and surf and drive fast cars, climb trees, and do dozens of things that we know are potentially concussive. We will do this because we are human and animals, and we like speed and contact and aggressive maneuvering and all such things.

I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.

I don't like a snug-fit helmet.

The only way you're gonna eliminate helmet-to-helmet contact is to take the helmets off. Go back to leather helmets. I mean, I think a defensive player would be much less inclined to lead with his head if he had no protection.

The game can be quite dangerous when you look at certain injuries, especially head injuries.

We used tea towels for gloves until we got proper ones and were always breaking our mum's ornaments. She'd come home and find us all sat in our boxer shorts, out of breath and our skin red raw. She hated it.

For some reason, I have a thick skull.

I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions and head injury, it is becoming more evident that we need to protect our brains as much as possible. There hasn't been enough research to conclude that it is safer to box without the use of headgear.

I'm not a big fan of the halo as a device. I have to face facts - it does bring something in terms of safety.

Whenever you're falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that's part of the game; that's part of football.

If I had my accident maybe 10 years ago I wouldn't be here now. The technology we have now, the helmets, can save your life.

One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.

I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!