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• ‟ Our national identity is so interwoven with football.

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• ‟ I would advise kids not to play any sports, such as tackle football, where they are exposed to repeated blows to the head.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Football is an American sport. Everyone loves it. I certainly would never want to ban football.

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• ‟ I love 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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• ‟ I can't say I love football anymore.

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• ‟ Frankly, I think it should be no football until you're physically mature.

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• ‟ We're hoping that there is large-scale recognition that CTE is a risk when playing football.

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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.

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• ‟ It's almost un-American to say that you want to change football.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Football has a future. I don't know what that future is. I'm a physician.

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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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• ‟ They're elite athletes. They're amazing athletes. That's why I love football. I mean, it's incredible to me to see them go out for an unbelievable pass and actually make the catch. It's just an amazing game of athleticism and skill. They're different; there's no question. They're huge, they're fast, and they're all these wonderful things.

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• ‟ I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.

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