Dr. Bennet Omalu Quotes in Concussion (2015)
Dr. Bennet Omalu Quotes:
-
Dr. Bennet Omalu: Need is not weak. Need is need... You have to be the best version of yourself. If you don't know what that is you pick something and fake it
-
Dr. Bennet Omalu: [from trailer] Tell the truth! Tell the truth!
-
[from trailer]
Voice on phone: Drop it, or they'll be doing your autopsy, Mr Omalu.
Dr. Bennet Omalu: *Doctor* Omalu.
[Hangs up the phone]
-
Dr. Cyril Wecht: What if they show up here with a warrant?
Dr. Bennet Omalu: On suspicion of what? Science?
-
[from trailer]
Dr. Bennet Omalu: When I was a boy, heaven was here,
[gestures with hand]
Dr. Bennet Omalu: and America was here.
[gestures slightly lower]
Dr. Bennet Omalu: You could be anything, you could do anything - I never wanted anything as much as I wanted to be an American.
-
Dr. Bennet Omalu: All of these animals have shock absorbers built into their bodies. The woodpecker's tongue extends through the back of the mouth out of the nostril, encircling the entire cranium. It is the anatomical equivalent of a safety belt for its brain. Human beings? Not a single piece of our anatomy protects us from those types of collisions. A human being will get concussed at sixty G's. A common head-to-head contact on a football field? One hundred G's. God did not intend for us to play football.
-
Dr. Bennet Omalu: I solved the problem. All they have to do is put on the side of the helmet, "The Surgeon General has determined that playing football is hazardous to your health."
Dr. Cyril Wecht: You got to put it on *both* sides of the helmet.
[they laugh]
-
Dr. Bennet Omalu: [from trailer] Repetitive head trauma chokes the brain! And turns man into something else.
-
Dr. Cyril Wecht: [rhetorically] Did you think the NFL would thank you?
Dr. Bennet Omalu: [earnestly] Yes.
Dr. Cyril Wecht: What the hell for?
Dr. Bennet Omalu: For knowing.
-
Prema Mutiso: [points to a box of pathology slides] What is that?
Dr. Bennet Omalu: Mike Webster.
-
Dr. Cyril Wecht: Do you know why you're not back in Nigeria?
Dr. Bennet Omalu: Yes, because I remind you of you.
Dr. Cyril Wecht: Only less handsome. Sit down.
-
Dr. Bennet Omalu: [on Dr Wecht's indictment for misuse of a fax machine] They could not come up with something this stupid in Nigeria!
-
Dr. Cyril Wecht: Sometimes in life, one... You are asked to leave something for peace. But sometimes you cannot.
Dr. Bennet Omalu: Do you think he believes it's time to leave it alone?
Dr. Cyril Wecht: No, I do not believe it. I never do, why people hate me.
-
Dr. Bennet Omalu: I had a revelation tonight. This body was made for dancing.
-
Dr. Cyril Wecht: How much has it cost you so far?
Dr. Bennet Omalu: $20,000.
Dr. Cyril Wecht: 20?
Dr. Bennet Omalu: I save. Everything.
Dr. Cyril Wecht: Really? How un-American.
-
Dr. Bennet Omalu: I want to marry you. We can fall in love...
Prema Mutiso: If you want to marry me, I will marry you.
Dr. Bennet Omalu: That's good, because I already made the down payment.
-
Dr. Cyril Wecht: I think you'll be an American hero.
Dr. Bennet Omalu: I'm not even American.
Dr. Cyril Wecht: Better. That's *very* American!
-
Dr. Bennet Omalu: Cyril, I can not go back to Nigeria. Everything that I am is here. My child has got to be born in America.
Dr. Cyril Wecht: Don't worry, I'll get you a job. Hey, you can work with me in the prison laundry.
-
Dr. Bennet Omalu: By my calculations, Mike Webster has sustained more than 70,000 blows to his head.
Browse more character quotes from Concussion (2015)