Ann McKee Quotes
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I have a little easier time watching the NFL than college or high school. I used to go to the high school games, and now I have trouble with it. The NFL players get big rewards from it. I feel at least the NFL has made big changes to help their safety. And they're adults - they can make good decisions.
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I feel like Dr. Death.
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My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals.
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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.
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The thing you want your kids to do most of all is succeed in life and be everything they can be. And if there's anything that may infringe on that, that may limit that, I don't want my kids doing it.
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It's almost un-American to say that you want to change football.
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My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really wanted him to play football, but now I'm thankful he didn't.
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The overwhelming evidence is that trauma is a major factor in CTE.
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Is a concussion going to lead to CTE? No, probably not in most cases. But if you have enough concussions over a certain amount of time, yes, then I think you can lead to CTE.
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I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.
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I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science.
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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.
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CTE can be caused by smaller hits to the head over time.
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I'm not your run-of-the-mill scientist.
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Football has a future. I don't know what that future is. I'm a physician.
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Frankly, I think it should be no football until you're physically mature.
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Our national identity is so interwoven with football.
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If football is your passion in life and you would rather play football for 20 years and have a shortened life span, that's your choice.
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Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease.
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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.
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It's impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E.
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Junior Seau's CTE finding raises a lot of issues for everyone. He is such a beacon. He was so young when he died. He was an active player for so long. He was such an amazing individual who was well loved by his teammates and his community.
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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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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.