Athlete Safety Quotes

We never want anything bad to happen, especially to an athlete like Jon Jones.

When you've been playing the game for so long and sports for so long, it can take a toll on your body, and that's what we're putting on the line, and that's what our argument is as players when we're doing negotiations and stuff like that.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

It's so uncommon for athletes to push themselves the way they do and not have injuries as a result.

Everyone is on a fair playing field. It's safer for athletes, it's safer for the fighters - it's just a safer thing for fighters. So I think the USADA thing is good.

After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.

I don't understand referees. It appears like some players can't even be touched, but in my case, everyone can hit me as hard as they can.

An athlete may not know what they're putting in their body.

Surely, sport is not fundamentally about the safety of athletes. If it were, we'd probably have to ban professional football, right after boxing.

Concussions is one of these pack journalism issues, frankly. There's no increase in concussions. The number is relatively small. The problem is, it is a journalist issue.

I love sports, OK? But I think we really need to take it on ourselves to not be so crazy about sports, not to risk someone's future just because we think they might be the next star.

It's important for closet gay athletes everywhere, not just at the professional level, but more importantly athletes at the younger level in high school and college, to understand they do have support around them and that they can come out and feel comfortable. And honestly, that is going to help save lives.

I'm impassioned about injury prevention as an athlete.

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

You've got to make sure the field condition is great for the players, because we're the guys out there running, putting our life on the line, playing hard.

I think medically, football is generally well looked after. There are always checks made. Anything which can be done to make footballers or sportsmen of any area safer has to be encouraged.

I think that those wrestlers, those women and men that go in the ring are not protected. I don't think anybody is ever looking out for them and I think that they are used badly.

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

The referee jumped in too late in my opinion. He's the champion and he's got to be given every chance, but a lot of people was wincing and cringing seeing the finish cos his head is bouncing all over the place.

Working in sports for nearly the past twenty years, I have seen first-hand how gun violence affects athletes and their families.

We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don't want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40.

Once the surgeon said the skull is strong enough with the helmet on, I decided to return to training with the team.

People have to realise we are footballers, we are targets but we have got to protect ourselves.

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

As a company, the best that we can do is not only penalize but rehabilitate. Speaking for myself, I've always been strong. I don't need that club to put in my bag. This is a choice of the athlete, not the sanctioning body. We do substance abuse testing, impact testing, cardiac testing, so we try to sniff out these problems before they even start.