Helmet Quotations

People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw.

I've climbed Stromboli when it's erupting, which is quite a heavy climb: three hours with a helmet to get to the top. When you're there, and it's dark, and you can see this eruption and feel it, it's quite different to watching it on TV.

There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products - appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you can export the data from your son's football helmet to a new app that monitors force and impact against a cohort of high school players around the country?

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.

Wharton was my only choice to co-produce this project with me. I want to get back to my roots with this release and what's really cool is that we are actually using the same tape machine that we recorded our first two albums with. The whole thing is also going to be done in all analog to give it that classic Helmet sound. We're very excited about it.

What he did to that (cornerback), it was clean and legal, but he knocked his helmet off. Then he ran the length of the field. We as coaches said, 'Wow!' He was running by some of our other guys.

We can do a lot more in our everyday lives to prevent brain injuries. I'd like to see everyone here, when they buy that next car, make sure it has side airbags. And make sure kids under 15 always wear a helmet for bike riding, skateboarding, rollerblading. We could save a life a day just by doing that.

Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Life Sucks,get a helmet

If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.

We did not feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet. He was trying to get the helmet off and I don't think he was trying to use it as a weapon.

The crash ripped my helmet off. And it was a little hard to move for the next couple of days. But, I've had my share of good runs so it all evens out.

We want to make sure the first time someone straps on a football helmet isn't in August of their freshman year. We've had some youth programming, but it's been piecemeal. With the new plan, we're trying to coordinate this.

The pitch was up and in. In that case, you just try to make sure the pitch hits more helmet than face.

Most of the time, adults say they are just here to watch. I always offer to give them my helmet and my board. I know that if I get people on the hill, they'll be the ones holding the board over their heads at the bottom.

Nearly every artifact has a story connected to it, whether it be a hole in a helmet or a belt that a medic carried around with him as he treated the wounded on the beach.

On pass protection, he's awesome, ... You should see him drive his helmet into those big guys' thigh pads.

I have had many wonderful opportunities, ... My life as a musician didn't end when Helmet broke up. I just started to explore.

I have my hair done by Valery Joseph, who does a version of the Palm Beach crash helmet so that it doesn't move.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

For safety, the helmet is the most important equipment to protect your noggin.

He had his helmet on, but I don't know if it was strapped right. We all loved him, and we're going to miss him.

He had his chest guard on, he had his forearm guard on, he had his helmet on, and he was pretty keen to get out there.

He had a cut on his forehead two years ago during preseason camp. The doctor said he needed to slow down for a day or two. They had to hide his helmet so he wouldn't try to go out there.

He looks pretty good. He says he doesn't feel anything but we still have to be cautious. If he doesn't get any headaches or dizziness, he might be ready on Wednesday. Hopefully the new helmet worked and he doesn't have any repercussions and he's OK.

Her whole ride was about that helmet that day. That day, that helmet was her whole goal.

When they first handed me my helmet and pads, I jokingly asked, 'Do I have to wear these?' ... Without being up close to the game ? television is so far away ? is that you don't appreciate how physically fast and tough and strong and how much more they can impact the body because they have got shoulder pads and helmets. Ours is a different physically tough game.

He just put his helmet on and went back to work. No complaint, nothing. You don't see that from Troy.

I yelled a few choice words under my helmet when the red flag came out. Fortunately, the team gave me a great bike for the restart and I was able to build my lead again. I have to admit I'm a little shocked at well this weekend went.

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Last year, I sat my helmet on the field and it blew over and the wind blew it down the field. If the wind is going to blow hard enough to blow my helmet around the field, that's bad. I should be a charter member of weather.com . I look at it every single day.

I was just trying to make the tackle. That guy's like 280 pounds. I just cut the dude. The crowd goes crazy, and I actually thought he had run over me and scored. It was just one of those lucky plays where my helmet hit the ball.

Last time I was here, I went up to the archives and got shown around, and there was the dark helm, ... I asked if I could put it on and get a picture, which is pretty funny, because I'm wearing this gray track suit and had this enormous helmet on which is just completely disproportionate.

I saw one of our guys get his helmet ripped off and the (referee) was standing right there looking at it, ... I said to him, 'What did (McMichael) do that was worse than a guy ripping Sammy Morris' helmet off right in front of him?' I'm not saying he shouldn't have gotten a penalty. I'm just saying: Is there such thing as consistency?

Our investigators looked at the helmet and based on the extensive damage it had, we believe the helmet was in use at the time of the crash, ... We do not yet know if it was a helmet malfunction or whether it was not on properly.

Robby Gordon has a tremendous amount of talent, but when he pulls the helmet over his head, he knocks some sort of switch that makes him an idiot.

That clearly made a difference. If she didn't have that helmet on it'd be a whole different story.

My neck hurts. My lower back doesn't feel too good. My knees are the best thing about me right now, so I don't know what's going on. As far as the formerly injured area, I feel good. I have those two-a-day lumps, the tired neck from keeping this big helmet on, but other than that I feel normal.

I won't let my son go on the ice without a helmet and a visor on.

We went with physical, fast people who are all good hitters. They will all put the helmet on them.

Without a question it's the most comfortable, best-fitting helmet that I've ever put on. I'm not even aware I have it on -- and in that way it does enhance my game.

Yeah, this is going to fix helmet head for at least a month.

Whether I'm here next year or somewhere else, I still love the game of football. To me, that's the most important thing at the end of the day. Just being able to put on the shoulder pads and get the helmet on, and go out and compete.

the only casualty was a helmet that got run over by the S.U.V.

My hair was too big. And my head is big, and my hair is big, so my helmet gets too small. So I have to make a haircut.

When my hair was dark for 'House,' that was the hardest to maintain because it was like every three weeks my light roots would start coming in. And you can't really just dye your hair one color brown because then it looks like a helmet on television, so then I had to have four colors of brown woven into my hair every three weeks.

We're trying to check with all the pro teams and different places on what we can build him. If he's able to wear a football helmet or whatever we got to do, we'll do it. We are going to the Nth degree to find out anything we can find out that would give us a better chance to get him back quickly.

This year we're a lot better prepared for it. We had a special paint scheme this year on my helmet and we're going to auction that off. That's going to go to the foundation, and my suits and all that stuff.

We didn't feel it was Tucker's intent to hurt Janssen with the helmet ... he was trying to get the helmet off and I don't think he was trying to use it as a weapon.

We had a chance to get back into the game (in the third), but the penalties certainly hurt us. Throwing the helmet was an automatic disqualification for Tommy (Adams), and he'll be out for two games. That guy (Forster) was going off anyway, and we would've had a man advantage. But I've told the guys that we have to control our emotions, and we didn't do that in the third.

With everything else that's happened to me, it was a pretty dumb injury. We were celebrating in the end zone when I took my helmet off. Manuel ran by and caught me on my forehead. It just started bleeding.

First game out of the box, man, and let me tell you, I was running scared. I got my helmet cracked the first time I touched that thing (the ball). Man, it got beat up a little bit. That gives you inspiration to go out there and not make too many mistakes.

You can look at the history and there have been some great games, some great players, but I don't think that has anything to do with what happens Saturday night. It's just get your helmet on tight and let's go.

We'll have to put our helmet on and take a few months of lower overall sales.

Up until (Friday), everything was about me being new, the poison pill, the contract and what the league wants to do to amend the rule or whatever. Now it is back to football and putting on a helmet and being able to play. You can kind of put that behind you, so it's nice.

We give you the helmet and some goggles. But you're responsible for picking the bugs out of your teeth.

This new uniform, helmet and design work has been in development since the end of the 2004 football season. It was an idea first developed by former head coach Matt Sayre.

Besides, ... in 39 years of riding, I've never seen a fatal accident where the helmet would've made a difference. Not at any speed. Not once.

(Cox) is not real big but he is quick and he will put a helmet on you.

Another change is on the hat and batting helmet -- they are all blue. We eliminated the black out of the batting helmet. There still is a black jersey.

The results are remarkably similar that when you repeal a helmet law, you can expect an increase in fatalities and you can expect an increase in medical costs.

I've been lifted off my feet, knocked out, helmet knocked off.

The rule said 'He must intentionally use his helmet to spear,' and we felt like it's hard to find an official to realize whether or not the players intentionally used it or whether he was just making a hit, ... So that will be a rule and a point of emphasis, not only in our conference, but nationally.

I wanted to come, because it's always been a big thing here in Alabama. Getting invited, you just represent Alabama. Being younger, watching the game, you're always looking for the guys with the Alabama helmet on. It's special.

Say the last thing he said was 'Cover Four' and the helmet goes down. You have to fire a pad, and if you hit the one pad it releases a second pad that you have to fight across. This is something you can apply on the field.

Coach Lopez said if it is out there, the pitch will find me. It seems like almost every game I am getting dotted. I got hit in the helmet this time. It was a good thing I was wearing one. There was some ringing in my ears, but it went away.

As a kid, I spray-painted my football helmet silver, and when the Lions introduced the blue stripes and Leaping Lion logo in 1961, I thought it was the coolest thing,

A well-designed and properly fitting helmet will definitely decrease the likelihood of a head injury because it absorbs and spreads the force of the impact over a larger surface.

They say you come to the ballpark and you'll see something you haven't seen, and I haven't seen that before when you hit the guy on the helmet with a double-play ball. They get a run out of that and another run on the two-out base hit.

They say come to the ballpark and you'll see something you haven't seen before. I haven't seen that before, you hit a guy in the helmet on the double-play ball.

They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.

They did some good things. We were able to play about everybody who had a helmet or shoulder pads today, which is a good thing for morale.

You don't want to end up with French-twist helmet head.

It seems like it is a smart thing to wear a helmet if you ski or snowboard. Even if you're not aiming for Olympic gold, but you are skiing or snowboarding, just for fun or pleasure.

I took my helmet off, that way they couldn't throw me to the ground. There is a little planning in there.

It was frightening at first because you heard that loud sound. They've got a new-style helmet now. I hope it works. It has a little less padding and more holes, I guess to absorb the shock. We got its first test today.

It was squeezing my chest and I was sort of short of air. I've loosened them up a little bit. Whenever I got real short, I just took my helmet off when I had the opportunity. I'm pretty used to it now.

It was road rage. Some guy -- maybe he was drunk -- saw a sitting duck with a yellow helmet and couldn't resist.

It was a shocker to me (that Miller held on). I thought he'd let the ball go. It was a good shot, helmet to helmet. He just made a great catch.

I told him, 'You probably don't like me, but I like you,' ... Once they get the 'Birds on the helmet ...

It's not like he's 'The Matrix' style and he's so quick that he can tell exactly where he's supposed to put his helmet and hand, ... Lance was just trying to make a play, and that's exactly what he did. The only illegal thing to do is grab the facemask, and Lance didn't do that. It was a great tackle.

That means that six out of 10 head injuries could be avoided if everyone wore a helmet. If you're smart, wear a helmet - if you want to stay smart.

That really changed everything in the ski helmet world. It's becoming a fairly common item.

Every once in a while, they'll throw cigarette butts at you. I keep my helmet on. Sometimes they're lit.

It's amazing. People get to see you without your helmet on, and it makes them so happy.

It was an opportunity I couldn't pass up because I can still prepare, watch film, analyze and break down opponents, ... Instead of holding a helmet and a ball I'll be holding a microphone.

They instilled so much effort, effort, go hard, go hard, that I didn't even realize my helmet was off. I wonder if that is in everybody else's mind. I think it is, and that's why the defense is playing at a different level.

I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great.

I know when Jamie McMurray puts his helmet on, he's going to drive as hard as he can whether he'll be there next year or not, ... He's going to do his job. It's just the chemistry is not going to be there if you know a driver would just as soon move on.

If she hadn't been wearing that helmet, I think we would be looking at a much different kind of case. Her head received some major impact. There is no doubt the helmet made a difference.

I had a few pimples here and there when I was 14. Never had braces though, thank God. A girl in my class had, like, the big helmet of head gear. I felt so bad for her. People always made fun of me enough because of my name.

I really was a fast moving man, moving too fast. I went through a red light on South Main Ave. My helmet -- I was being cool, it wasn't strapped on. It fell off. I got hit by a car. I guess I slid 75 feet.

I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. ""You don't have to tell me,"" I said. ""I'm off the team, aren't I?"" ""Well,"" said Coach, ""you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times."" It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.

I'll say it again: It's the Indianapolis Colts that are coming into our stadium with a mentality that our quarterback is going to run his offense at the line 80 percent of the time, ... I can't imagine what that means to Baltimoreans to see that Colts helmet in this stadium and them thinking they can run their offense on the line. Fans, the challenge is there. Keep up the noise because we can wear them out.

I just kind of took all the extra skin and taped it to my eyelid and taped it up to my forehead and put my helmet on and went on.

I ran out of gas when I got into the garage area, and Jimmy Spencer ran into the back of my car. I was still in the car when he approached me with obvious anger. Words were exchanged, but I was still strapped in my seat with my helmet off when he struck me in the face. He broke my tooth and bloodied my nose.

I put this helmet on, and it had been so long, it didn't fit anymore. I had to tell (Rams equipment manager) Todd Hewitt to take some air out of the helmet. It's good to be back.

I didn't even see Frank's swing. By the time I put down my helmet and my batting gloves and sat down, Milton went deep.