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Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at…

— G. K. Butterfield

Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football…

— Tom Udall

“The fundamental issue is not concussions but repeated blows to the head--with or without concussions, with or without helmets. We must mitigate the exposure…

— Dr. Bennet Omalu

The most obvious and easiest answer if you've got a head injury is a better helmet. The problem is there's no evidence that it…

— Ken Dryden

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

— Anonymous

You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I…

— John Madden

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

— Anonymous

My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really…

— Ann McKee

We wreck a few times a year, we're not getting hit in the head as much as football players, but concussions still happen in…

— Kyle Larson

At some point, we're going to have to get to the point where, before you play football, I'm going to test you at some…

— Bud Grant

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

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