"I've been concussed that many times that I'm probably beyond it now, to be honest," he said when asked if the focus on brain trauma from playing rugby league had scared him. "I've been knocked over 10 times so ...

"To be honest I saw the articles in the paper and I read them all and I still wanted to [keep playing]. As I said before I've been knocked out that many times if I'm going to get dementia I'm going to get it, it's just what it is; nothing I can do about it."

"You get paid well and I think everyone knows that there's going to be head knocks involved and if you don't want to cop a head knock you don't play really. There's things happen in footy, get your head in the wrong place or ... it's just how it happens."

Fulton said while he did not have a proper grasp of the concussion rules he understood why the Wests Tigers medical and coaching staff rested him.

"I got knocked out, I didn't move, I got stretchered off," he said. "I probably just left it to the doctors; my wife wasn't really keen on me to play but I said 'listen if the doctors say I can play, I can play' ... the doctor said I couldn't play, so I didn't play. My missus [was] tearing up seeing me in the neck brace on the stretcher ... I don't even remember her being in there to be honest ... I still remember when I got home I saw [the knock out] on the news and I didn't even know that I got stretchered off ...