Jerry Jones Quotes

In boxing, you've got CTE from head trauma constantly.

The relationship between concussions and the asserted clinical symptoms of C.T.E. remains unknown.

It's impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.

While we know, on average, that certain positions experience more repetitive head impacts and are more likely at greater risk for CTE, no position is immune.

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?

The overwhelming evidence is that trauma is a major factor in CTE.

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

We're hoping that there is large-scale recognition that CTE is a risk when playing football.

The thing you don't realise is that every time you head the ball, your brain shakes. Every single time. Have you ever headed a ball badly and seen stars for a couple of seconds? That's your brain shaking. Let's be honest: that can't be healthy, can it?

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've had an alarming amount of concussions.

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.

It's just a matter of sometimes the CTE in your brain affects what happens in your life... and sometimes... it does not.

I'm learning how to prevent my brain from getting worse than it is after suffering a career worth of concussions playing football.

I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my words and slurring. It won't be because I am drunk: it will be the fighting, taking blow after blow to the brain. That scares me. I don't worry about being killed in the ring; it's losing my mind that I fear.

My father was an NFL running back, so I feel like I might be more susceptible, genetically, to CTE.

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.

CTE can be caused by smaller hits to the head over time.

Is a concussion going to lead to CTE? No, probably not in most cases. But if you have enough concussions over a certain amount of time, yes, then I think you can lead to CTE.

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

All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.

If chronic bashing of the head could destroy a boxer's brain, couldn't it also destroy a football player's brain? Surely someone in the history of football had thought to look for dementia pugilistica. Unlike boxers, football players wear helmets, but a helmet can't fully protect the head from damaging impact.

Different people respond differently to head trauma than others.

The beginnings of CTE can start quite early.