Chris Borland Quotes

Chris Borland

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 26, 1990

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.

Chris Borland

I think I did a good job of compartmentalizing my life. It's crazy to say it, but even if football was this dangerous thing, it was a place where I could focus all my energy. I'm sure it's not the healthiest thing to direct stress from football into football, but that's basically what I did.

Chris Borland

Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.

Chris Borland

I walked away from pro football and a $2.9 million contract with the San Francisco 49ers because I didn't want to develop CTE.

Chris Borland

I loved football. I'm so glad I played. But I didn't think it was wise for me to play longer.

Chris Borland

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.

Chris Borland

Punishment for doing your job well is an unparalleled professional pressure.

Chris Borland

I enjoyed playing, and I've got a full and happy life now, so it's not like I'm looking back longingly at my time in football.

Chris Borland

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.

Chris Borland

I don't consider football fun. It's not like a water park or a baseball game.

Chris Borland

My experience over my five years at Wisconsin and my one year in the NFL was that there were times where I couldn't play the game safely. There are positive measures we can take... but on a lead play, on a power play, there's violence.

Chris Borland

A generation of men really built the NFL and gave guys like me a shot, and a lot of these guys are left out in the cold by the league and forgotten.

Chris Borland

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.

Chris Borland

I think I'd be a good pass-catching fullback.

Chris Borland

I'm more athletic than people think.

Chris Borland

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

Chris Borland

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.

Chris Borland

People think that athletes have it great, and we do in a lot of regard, but universities make a hell of a lot of money off of players. You don't get a free education: you work full-time year round for five years for an education you could pay for three times over if you just got your market value.

Chris Borland

If you turn on the film, I can play.

Chris Borland

Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with triangles. You make a pass thinking that the person you pass the ball to is going to make the next pass.

Chris Borland