Football Concerns Quotes

When the President of the United States comes out and says, 'If I had boys, I wouldn't let them play tackle football,' that's a big punch to the gut for our sport.

Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising parents not to let young children play organized football too early in life.

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

I don't really trust the NFL.

I do not have a son; if I had a son, I wouldn't necessarily discourage him from playing football, but I don't know that I would encourage him to play, either.

No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.

My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.

I worry for Scottish football.

I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football.