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"You shouldn't be upset about making the game safer for the players."
"Hip drop tackles were reportedly more dangerous than a regular tackle and resulted in 20 to 25 times more injuries."
"I do believe in protecting the guys and especially shoulder nick head area."
"Because it's just a stalled car starling well I actually saw Jake Hughes who's obviously raced at F2 a little bit tweeted that they should have anti-stall."
"I think at the Forefront of your brain should probably be the safety of the other competitors."
"The gap between his chest and my elbow was the thing that saved my shoulder in that circumstance."
"It's almost like what we're talking about with football, that football be safer if there was no helmets. It doesn't make sense."
"Slipping is going to happen no matter what stud pattern you have on your feet."
"Health and safety being a number-one priority because it's not if that was the case they wouldn't play."
"You hit each other in the head, you get coronavirus. Okay, tackle each other, be smart, be smart."
"To see him walk away from a crash like that in 2022, I think it just shows how far the sport has come on safety."
"Is the Tour de France more dangerous than ever before? Let's look into it, shall we?"
"This accident would force NASCAR to implement restrictor plates at all future Super Speedway races."
"Literally in one year in college ball, 12 people died."
"I worry that with all the money and power at stake with football it really makes it easy for somebody to discount the dangers of this disorder."
"We want young people... to be safe in the game of soccer and beyond."
"We want young people and current players, future players, to be safe in the game of soccer and beyond."
"It just feels wrong like we're throwing full power shots against each other no gear no protection whatsoever."
"Safety's mission in Formula One is never done and it will never be safe, it can always be safer."
"Referees play a very important role in protecting the stars of the show."
"He aimed for the head and punched right in the head. Like, this is lethal damage, you know? When they tell you, like, as you're a kid, they're like, 'Hey, in dodgeball, you can't hit him in that.' This is right in the head!"
"That's reckless, that's a red card. He could have broken his arm, why is that not a red card then?"
"Strength and agility and speed and size - they don't really care if you were a star jump ball player if you lost all your brain cells because you like to lead with your helmet."
"There's no reason for you not to be wearing a steel cup when you fight."
"Is the Tour de France more dangerous than ever?"
"Someone's going to end up getting hurt in all this protocol stuff with the head injuries."
"That fight should have been stopped. Maybe you want to go out like a fighter. I think you'd rather be here."
"Injury prevention is the number one priority of any serious lifter."
"It is a more dangerous sport because you can get injured... even if you run it perfectly."
"Protect yourself... don't injure your shoulder."
"Randy Orton in particular because he is the safest ladder match participant you've ever seen." - Emphasizing safety in wrestling, a vital aspect of the sport.
"...you're trying to protect the defensive player as well."
"If you can add five pounds of neck strength muscle to your neck strength, you dramatically reduce concussion."
"But yo, like concussed, that's an absolute no-brainer for me, he should have been taken off the field immediately."
"The league quickly realized the potential chaos that would ensue on the field if Tearaway jerseys were allowed."
"You have to accept at some point that playing tackle football is inherently dangerous."
"You're trying to make the game safer, right? That's what they're trying to do. You don't want star players going down or getting injured."
"I just don't want anybody to get hurt when everybody to be healthy so we can have good basketball and enjoy it."
"The safety of drivers has become a key factor in the sport."
"The game of football, in particular, but athletics as a whole, the education and the focus on head injuries, the preventive side of it from how you practice, but also the treatment from how you respond to it."
"Concussion is real, and we think that players who suffer concussion should come off the pitch straight away."
"It's not a concussion problem, it's a concussion management problem."
"You can make the game both safer and more exciting; those are not mutually exclusive."
"What I think is important is that the medical staff at the stadium acted quickly and did everything they could to save Demar's life."
"The sports do come with inherent dangers and risks... if we understand what those inherent dangers and risks are, we can mitigate them, we can minimize them, and often we can avoid them altogether."
"Eliminating intentionally caused concussions in football... is not only possible but I believe necessary if we hope the sport maintains its status as America's game."
"Paintball is relatively safe, but these are the best of the best."
"A helmet does not prevent a concussion in football; a helmet prevents a skull fracture."
"The need to protect goalies in hockey discourse is shocking."
"Maybe we just need to stop trying so hard to make it safe because it's not a safe sport."
"Improving strength reduced sports injuries to less than one-third and overuse injuries could be reduced by half."
"In the last five years, the safety in freestyle has just went through the roof."
"To what extent can rule and helmet changes minimize micro concussions in youth football?"