“I guess I compete in everything I do, but it's always good to get out ...” — Chris Borland Quote

“I guess I compete in everything I do, but it's always good to get out and be active and find an outlet for all of that pent-up aggression you had as an athlete.”

“Football is inherently dangerous, and that will never change.”

“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.”

“I think it's unfair to punish players for inherent faults in the game.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For me to spend a lot of time trying to reach people who are inevitably not happy with themselves in some way would be a waste of my time and I think would set the precedent that when nonbinary people, or anybody, experiences some form of hatred or aggression, that our role is to reach across the aisle.”

“As a centre-back, my characteristics are more about aggression. I go looking for the ball, refuse to give it up as lost, try to win every battle.”

“Aggression is something that is a part of me, and I'm never going to take that out of my game.”

“For me, 'Far Beyond Driven' just had an oomph that kicked it over the edge and just pure aggression. And I always appreciated that.”

“There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.”

“No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is self-control, is social and political struggle, and even military jihad is only a way to defend oneself in the case of aggression.”