Quotes from Ann McKee

I'm not your run-of-the-mill scientist.

I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped.

Football is an American sport. Everyone loves it. I certainly would never want to ban football.

I run a number of different brain banks.

The beginnings of CTE can start quite early.

Dave Duerson had classic pathology of CTE and no evidence of any other disease.

Nothing good happens without a penalty.

Families don't donate brains of their loved ones unless they're concerned about the person.

Frankly, I think it should be no football until you're physically mature.

Football has a future. I don't know what that future is. I'm a physician.

Is a concussion going to lead to CTE? No, probably not in most cases. But if you have enough concussions over a certain amount of time, yes, then I think you can lead to CTE.

The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.

I definitely agree about the future of youth football being flag. There's just more and more evidence that the youth brain is particularly susceptible to the injury - thin necks, big heads. They're not as coordinated; they're not as skillful. For many reasons, I think the wave of the future is flag football for youth.

I do have a son. He's out of school now. He never played football. And it had nothing to do with me. I was actually crushed that he didn't play football. I thought, 'Oh my God, this is awful.' My brothers all played football. My dad played football.

I have a lot of college football players in my Brain Bank with CTE.

We've now found CTE in former NFL players who played every position except kicker.

I would advise kids not to play any sports, such as tackle football, where they are exposed to repeated blows to the head.

Junior Seau's CTE finding raises a lot of issues for everyone. He is such a beacon. He was so young when he died. He was an active player for so long. He was such an amazing individual who was well loved by his teammates and his community.

Every one of them is different. In fact, brains are like faces in that no two are ever alike.

Certainly, our work has identified CTE in many professional football players, but we're also seeing it in a very high percentage of college players.

Is there a way that we would actually recognize the game of football with fewer tackles and fewer collisions? I'm not sure. But I think that's the direction we're going to have to go. Bigger fields? Fewer players on the field? I think we are ultimately going to have to change some of the major rules of the game.

My brothers played football. In fact, I was an absolutely enormous Packer fan, and because I was raised in such a football-centric community, I have always had a terrific admiration for football players.

I can't say I love football anymore.

I was born and raised right outside of Green Bay, Wisconsin.