Brain Quote by Alice Dreger

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains…

— Jeffrey Kluger

Given the right set of circumstances any one of us could become dangerous - so why not show that in our programmes?

— Bryan Cranston

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk…

— Anonymous

The concussion crisis has changed the face of sports as we know it and it has brought to surface the incredible importance of our…

— Ben Utecht

I think we've reached that point where we understand medically what we are doing to ourselves with these sports. In football, it's kind of…

— Lucy Walker

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

— Christopher Rice

I'm not an expert on how to configure the sport, but I can observe and say that accidents seem to be a part of…

— Lucy Walker

It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don't think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic…

— Chris Borland

In youth we take egregious risks because death has no reality for us. Youth goes caparisoned in immortality. It is only in middle age…

— P. D. James

“If we are genuinely concerned about engaging young people, particularly those that are vulnerable or at risk, we must listen to them properly.”

— Libby Brooks

I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things.

— Maya Angelou

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.

— Kerri Strug