“Nah, if I had CTE I wouldn’t be able to have this beautiful gym, I wouldn’t be able to be creative. I wouldn’t be able to communicate. He didn’t hit me that hard. You know, I got up and walked off the field. We won the game. I was all right. You play the game long enough, everyone get hit hard.”
Antonio Brown‘s behavior has been well chronicled over the past year, and the embattled wideout is finally speaking out about his dizzying 2019. Brown spoke with ESPN’s Josina 
Anderson about the various issues that have kept him out of the NFL since last September.
This interview followed Brown’s most-recent fiasco, which saw him turning himself into authorities on charges of battery and burglary. Brown was later released on bond. This latest event followed a long list of problems for the 31-year-old, including several accusations of sexual assault/misconduct. The wideout has been an NFL limbo since being released by the Patriots earlier in the season.
While the entire article is worth reading, we’ve compiled some of the notable soundbites below:
On his behavior over the past year:
“I think I owe the whole NFL an apology and my past behavior. I think I could have done a lot of things better.”
On Roger Goodell’s recent comments:
“I was pleased to hear that after 140 days that there was some positivity about me because as of late I’ve just been the cancer of the NFL. The problem child, the guy who gets in trouble, the kind of guy who has the bad narrative about him.”
On his sexual assault/misconduct allegations:
“I feel like I never really got in a conflict with no woman. I just feel like I’m a target so, anybody can come against me and say anything [that] I have to face. There’s no support, there’s no egos, there’s no rules in it, anyone can come after me for anything. No proof or whatever. ‘He said, she’s saying.’
“The media will run with it, so even if I’m not guilty, I already guilty because they already wrote it, put it on TV and put that in people minds. So for me to have to sit here and hear those the allegations of me is just unfair to me every time.”
On if he’s frustrated with the NFL’s lack of progress on resolving his potential punishment:
“Yeah, because one thing it does seem like when you’re comparing this to other cases, it does seem like those other cases have been decided upon a lot quicker and this has extended into, we are now days away from the Super Bowl.”
On whether he has concerns about a brain disease (especially following a vicious hit from former Bengals linebacker (and future temporary teammate) Vontaze Burfict):