John Madden Quotes

I think the one thing I can say is not to play through concussions. I think that's unwise.

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

Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.

The most important thing is to get better at your craft, and concussions and head impacts are a setback.

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

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

For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.

I want to leave this sport with a little bit of my brains left.

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?

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 don't think any of us knew the dangers of repeated concussions or the fact that even when you got a concussion, the idea to go get treatment for it never entered our minds. We just didn't have - we weren't educated enough. We were really ignorant to it. I would get concussions in my early 20s racing, and it was a bit of a badge of honor.

I'm not in the business to get hit and take concussions.

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.

They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.

The integration of a headgear in professional boxing would do so much to make it safer for young men. They could go into the sport, make a lot of money and then come out and be good grandfathers.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

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 had an alarming amount of concussions.

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.

Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.

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

Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in brain damage, CTE, the National Hockey League refuses to accept the overwhelming medical science. Good grief - the NHL still permits fights.

Concussions, you have to be really honest with yourself, and sometimes that's hard to do.

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.