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- Nov 07, 2020
Football Quotes
Reflections from the field, the sideline, and the stands.
This set of football quotes draws on players describing what the game demanded of them, from proving doubters wrong despite their size to naming the skills that earned them a nickname. A few speak plainly about football being central to who they are, not just a pastime. For more on the people who play it, see our Football Players quotes.
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- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love football.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're hoping that there is large-scale recognition that CTE is a risk when playing football.
- High Percentage
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we're also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm concerned about the future of football, because we have paid a lot of attention to concussions. We are more aware of concussions. But it's really the repetitive minor injuries, the ones that are asymptomatic that occur on almost every play of the game, the sub-concussive hits: that's the big problem for football.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there a way that we would actually recognize the game of football with fewer tackles and fewer collisions? I'm not sure. But I think that's the direction we're going to have to go. Bigger fields? Fewer players on the field? I think we are ultimately going to have to change some of the major rules of the game.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely agree about the future of youth football being flag. There's just more and more evidence that the youth brain is particularly susceptible to the injury - thin necks, big heads. They're not as coordinated; they're not as skillful. For many reasons, I think the wave of the future is flag football for youth.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
My brothers played football. In fact, I was an absolutely enormous Packer fan, and because I was raised in such a football-centric community, I have always had a terrific admiration for football players.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a son. He's out of school now. He never played football. And it had nothing to do with me. I was actually crushed that he didn't play football. I thought, 'Oh my God, this is awful.' My brothers all played football. My dad played football.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born with football - my brothers, my dad. I played football when I was a kid. I mean, you know, it was part of life. It's a part of growing up. It's - you know, it's a way of life.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is an American sport. Everyone loves it. I certainly would never want to ban football.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Football is an extraordinarily popular sport, and the whole game is played around this issue. The whole makeup of the game involves these subconcussive hits. I don't know how they're going to solve that problem. I don't think they know how they're going to solve that problem.
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- Nov 07, 2020