“I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.” KnowsTryingBigsBrainBreakSawsFootballHeroMetsBeatsEnglandStudiosDrunkScotlandMy HeroRefrigeratorsFootball Match Author:Andy Partridge
“The black players at this club lend the side a lot of skill and flair, but you also need white players to balance things up and give the team some brains and common sense.” NeedsGivingSidesBlackWhiteCommonBrainPlayerTeamFootballBalanceSkillsClubsCommon SenseManagersSoccerChairmanFlair Author:Ron Noades
“You know how in sports baseball players, they hit home runs. Football players, they throw and they score touchdowns. I get to do something that very few people get to do - I get to touch the human brain, and every day I get to hit home runs, I get to score touchdowns.” PeopleKnowsHumansHomeRunningSportsBrainKnow HowPlayerFootballBaseballScoreHuman BrainBaseball PlayerFootball PlayerHome RunTouchdowns Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
“I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.” LostBrainFootballUsing Your Brain Author:Jason Peter
“There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.” BrainSpecialFootballChaosAllowingSplitsMessiSlow Motion Author:Carles Puyol
“Kenny wasn't the quickest of movers but he was 20 yards quicker than anybody else with his football brain and he would be in position before any defender knew what was happening. I've always said the best signing that Liverpool ever made was Kenny Dalglish.” MadeSaidWould BeBrainPositionFootballHappeningsYardsDefendersSigningLiverpoolKenny Author:Ronnie Moran
“Kenny was actually here at Melwood as a 15-year-old schoolboy. He came on trial and he went home afterwards. It was only later that Bill Shankly realised that Dalglish was here as a boy and he went mad! He said 'how did we miss him?' Kenny just had the football brain. He was born with it and you can't give that to people. He had that natural born talent.” PeopleGivingYearsSaidHomeBornNaturalBrainBoysTalentMissingFootballBillsMadTrialsRealisedKenny Author:Ian St John
“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 hard to get the access that you want for the story and, of course, it's very long-term: the effects of the repeat concussions really don't hit until decades afterwards, whereas the traumatic injuries in extreme sports are very immediate. I realized Traumatic Brain Injury was a fascinating and important story that not had been told very much. I wanted to know more.” ThinkingKindImportantSportsBrainFootballI RealizedInjuryUnderstand MeExtreme Sports Author:Lucy Walker
“Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.” MayLittlesJobsBrainFootballFineSkullsHelmetFractureConcussions Author:Jeffrey Kluger