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Dr. Bennet Omalu: [from trailer] Repetitive head trauma chokes the brain! And turns man into something else.
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Dr. Bennet Omalu: [from trailer] Tell the truth! Tell the truth!
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[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.
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[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]
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Dr. Cyril Wecht: The NFL owns a day of the week. The same day the Church used to own. Now it's theirs.
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Dr. Cyril Wecht: What if they show up here with a warrant?
Dr. Bennet Omalu: On suspicion of what? Science?
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Prema Mutiso: [points to a box of pathology slides] What is that?
Dr. Bennet Omalu: Mike Webster.
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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.
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Prema Mutiso: I can't tell what you are more afraid of: what you will find or what you won't.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Bennet Omalu: I had a revelation tonight. This body was made for dancing.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Prema Mutiso: If you don't speak for the dead, who will? You are of the Igbo tribe, Bennet. When you have the truth, the thing you are told you cannot do is the thing you must do. Embrace that, and nothing created by man can bring you down.
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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.
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Prema Mutiso: Bennett, listen to me. Do you know that I chose to fake?
Prema Mutiso: You.
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[last lines]
Title Card: The NFL agreed under the condition that it would not having to disclose what it knew, or when, about the effects of concussions on football players. Actuaries hired by the NFL have concluded that 28% of professional football players will suffer from serious cognitive impairment, including CTE. All federal charges against Dr. Cyril Wecht, were dismissed. In February 2015, Dr. Bennet Omalu became a citizen of the United States of America.
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Dr. Ron Hamilton: Ever met the great DeKosky before? Expect two minutes, tops.
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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.
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Dr. Bennet Omalu: By my calculations, Mike Webster has sustained more than 70,000 blows to his head.
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Rep. Linda Sanchez: It sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, "No, there's no link between smoking and damage to your health or ill health effects." And they were forced to admit that that was incorrect, through a spate of litigation in the 1990s.
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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]
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Dr. Julian Bailes: I just kept sending them back out there.
Dr. Cyril Wecht: What the hell were you thinking?
Dr. Julian Bailes: You've got to be a part of it. You've got to be on the sidelines with them to understand. Whatever it takes to keep them in the game, to keep the whole thing going. Tape, needles, Vicodin, Toradol, Lidocaine, Percocet, Lexapro, Zoloft... have I left anything out? It's tires and oil. Just mechanics trying to keep the cars on the racetrack.
Dr. Cyril Wecht: Yeah, well, it's not medicine. I don't know what it is.
Dr. Julian Bailes: It's business.
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Dr. Joseph Maroon: Football is the most popular sport in America because it is so goddamn fantastic. And that, right there?
[points out the window to Heinz Field]
Dr. Joseph Maroon: That is the beating heart of this city. And you want to end it?
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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!
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Prema Mutiso: [to Bennet] Your name means "If you know, you must tell."
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Mike Webster: To Justin... All we got to do is finish the game. We'll all be winners. Okay?
Concussion Quotes
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