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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 brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.

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Veterans, Very, Compare, Traumatic

I think the one thing I can say is not to play through concussions. I think that's unwise.

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Play, Think, Through, Unwise

In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they're not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old.

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People, Another, Read, Five-Year-Old

Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.

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Think, Some, Damage, Elective

About 10 percent of the time, I miss 3 to 5 percent of the game. I look back, and I'm happy that I played. I'm not wistful. You miss big games. I miss the locker room camaraderie. Sometimes I miss the lifestyle.

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Happy, Game, Big, Locker Room

You can't be in the locker room reading 'League of Denial.'

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Reading, Denial, League, Locker Room

I can't predict the future of football. I don't think it'll go the way of boxing because it's a team sport. It's built into our education systems, the flagship for a lot of universities' fundraising campaigns. So no, I don't think it'll go away.

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Education, Away, Our, Fundraising

I just thought to myself, 'What am I doing? Is this how I'm going to live my adult life, banging my head, especially with what I've learned and know about the dangers?'

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Thought, Doing, Dangers, Banging

Obviously, not the biggest guy in stature. Straight-line speed wasn't my forte either. But I play very fast because I know the game. I take proper angles and know all my assignments.

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Game, Play, Very, Stature

If I was a marginal guy or a practice squad player or a career-long special teamer, you take a hell of a lot less hits in those roles.

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Practice, Guy, Roles, Marginal

I just don't want to get in a situation where I'm negotiating my health for money.

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Money, Want, Get, Negotiating

The reality is that it's just the nature of the game. It's the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your responsibilities as a player involve those little hits that are going to accumulate. You can't take that out of the game.

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Game, Line, Your, Defensive

I think I'm connected to this issue in some capacity, football and brain damage. So carving out a way to address it tactfully is important to me no matter what I go on to do.

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Think, Some, Damage, Brain Damage

I never played the game for money and attention. I love football, and I've had a blast.

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Love, Game, Never, Blast

I'm involved in so many cool and interesting and redeeming things. I'm enjoying every day.

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Cool, Every Day, Involved, Redeeming

The act of riding a bicycle isn't causing brain trauma. Yeah, you could fall, but that's if something goes wrong. Everything could go right in football, and it's still dangerous.

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Bicycle, Trauma, Still, Causing

The men and women that are hired to take care of players' health, their salaries are paid by the team. Before games, you would see team docs and trainers, and they're every bit as as excited to, say, beat the Raiders as you are; their emotions are tied up in it.

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Men And Women, Before, Bit, Trainers

The 49ers drafted me assuming I wanted to play more than one year. At the time, I did, too. Things changed. They didn't deserve to be undercut. And I didn't want that to happen.

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Play, Deserve, Happen, Drafted

During the course of a 16-game season, everybody, in the end, is injured. It's almost as if pieces just get broken off, and you give up pieces or an appendage every year.

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Broken, Give, Everybody, In The End

Folks who blithely disregard the benefits of football likely haven't played or are being intellectually dishonest. The game, perhaps more than any other, requires absolute dedication and teamwork. Yes, I ultimately quit, and if I ever have a son, he won't play, but I'll always cherish the lessons I learned from football.

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Game, Play, Benefits, Lessons

I think flag football is a great alternative, and it's a great game in its own right. It's a wonderful alternative. You can develop all of the skills and athleticism and glean the lessons you can from contact football through playing flag.

- Chris Borland

Game, Think, Through, Lessons

The idea that just the basis of the game, repetitive hits, could bring on a cascade of issues later in life, that was - it changed the game for me.

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Game, Idea, Could, Cascade

I think it actually is easier for players to abstain from watching than it is for people who haven't experienced it. I know a wide variety of former players that don't really follow football any more. They've kind of had that cathartic experience. They know what it is.

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I Think, Had, Abstain, Experienced

I've thought about what I could accomplish in football, but when you read about Mike Webster and Dave Duerson and Ray Easterling, you read all these stories, and to be the type of player I want to be in football, I think I'd have to take on some risks that, as a person, I don't want to take on.

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Some, I Think, Dave, Webster

I couldn't really justify playing for money, and I think what I wanted to achieve put me at too great a risk, so I just decided on another profession.

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Think, I Think, Profession, Justify

The host of 'Face The Nation,' Bob Schieffer, was an important figure in my childhood years. Every Sunday in the fall, he occupied my family's time after church and before the NFL pregame shows.

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Childhood, Nation, Figure, Occupied

As far as what it takes to play football, I've got all it requires.

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Play, Far, As Far As, Play Football

One thing that's important to understand is that it's believed that the pathology of CTE doesn't have to do with concussion so much as it has to do with the accumulation of sub-concussive hits. So every hit matters. If you're subject to 800 or 1,200 of these every year, it accumulates. It's like erosion.

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Year, Pathology, Subject, Erosion

I would never call myself anti-football. I think I'm pro-information, pro-people making informed individual choices, pro-health, so for that reason, personally, I'm apathetic towards football. But at the same time, I think we can retain some civility, and I understand why people support and love it.

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Love, Reason, Some, Apathetic

My height might be a disadvantage in some parts of my game, but it is a big advantage in rushing the passer.

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Big, Some, Disadvantage, Height

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