Johnny Gimble Quotes

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory into long term memory.

As many know, brain injury comes in many forms. The two most prevalent brain injuries - stroke and trauma - affect more than 2.2 million Americans, and these numbers are expected to grow.

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

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.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

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.

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

I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.

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.

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.

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

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

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?

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.

The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than the stroke, the impact that concussions have had on my life, particularly as I get older.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

I understand the seriousness of concussions.