Bennet Omalu quote: "As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?"

On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coro...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

Omalu first found the tau 'threads' in the brain of former Steeler Mike Webster in 2002 and ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interes...
JOHN MALKOVICH

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

Mike Webster's death was significant. Iron Mike. The best center in the NFL. Nine-time Pro Bowle...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

I've always approached my job first as a physician. I'm here to help and take care of patien...
DAVID SHULKIN

Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster ...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

When I read Mike Webster's file before I began his autopsy, I knew he was more than a 50-year-ol...
BENNET OMALU

Once he got his feet wet and got a taste of it there was no turning back. Right after his sophomore ...
JOE KOCH

There is an enormous amount of options that a physician can provide today, right down from curing pa...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

When I was growing up as a kid I was playing football or baseball or something else in the back yard...
BRIAN WELLS

I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a cit...
OS GUINNESS

I never dreamed about being an actor, because that was out of reach. Coming from a small town that w...
HERSCHEL WALKER

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.
ROBERT KENNEDY, JR.

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY

Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do th...
NATE ROBINSON

I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfrie...
NICOLE ARI PARKER

I think the way we think about cancer, the way we treat cancer, has dramatically changed in the last...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE

Football was a wonderful experience for me. It was a means of, oh, I don't know, sustaining for ...
TOMMY LEE JONES

Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say...
HENRY ROLLINS

How much hurricane damage was here? Not that much. This home had no roof damage which was a miracle ...
ADELE PICK

I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid befo...
DEREK JETER

I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.
ANNE ROBINSON

Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again...
JOHN GREEN

I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
JOHN GREEN

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
JOHN GREEN

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism wa...
GEORGE GALLOWAY

Mike Maslowski has been an extremely important player for this franchise since '99. He has grown wit...
CARL PETERSON

The trauma, according to the death certificate, was a result of his injuries during his tenure as a ...
JOSEPH DOMINICK

It was difficult to step away. I've always been an athlete. And to give that up was extremely da...
DAVID ROBINSON

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I...
DICK CAVETT

I didn't so much become an advocate for public access until I was denied. There was a certain amount...
RYAN NEES

Mike had a wife and her name was Terri. She came before me, and I knew that. That was just that. Not...
JODI SCHIAVO

My father was an all-American football player.
EDWIN MOSES

I know how much my late center Mike Webster suffered. I can only imagine what a lot of defensive pla...
TERRY BRADSHAW

If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice b...
D'BRICKASHAW FERGUSON

I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ

Every believer should be an apostle since each believer is sent by the Lord Jesus to go and bear fru...
HENRY HON

I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful...
ROBERT BENTON

In the past, it was thought that there was no difference between these two types of processing in th...
FULVIA CASTELLI

Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted pri...
BENNET OMALU

Where did Keynes stand on overt fascism? From the scattered information now available, it should com...
MURRAY ROTHBARD

I've never been a part of anything like that before. As a player you're told not to mention it. Befo...
TED WILLIAMS

We knew Kyle coming up was an athlete. He's been a solid player for us this year, and we were expect...
DAVE DETERS

I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner...
KEVIN GATES

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like gra...
CALVIN KLEIN

When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other s...
ANDREA SEIGEL

I knew I'd conquered America when Mike Tyson told me I was one mean lady.
ANNE ROBINSON

When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist no...
CONOR OBERST

If there was no brain damage, I would have expected him to wake up at this point.
DR. JOHN MARTIN

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, w...
RICKY WILLIAMS

So, I'm thinking of a name for a villain that has a sense of humor. I thought of 'The Joker&...
JERRY ROBINSON

The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life.
ANUJ SOMANY

It's a dream come true. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to dream about playing college football...
CHAD KELLY

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fa...
GAINES ADAMS

[- Electronic Arts has announced another football series to come out of its multi-year exclusivity d...
DALE JACKSON

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of b...
CALLIE HERNANDEZ

I was just a very emotional player. I wore my emotions on my sleeve. I pretty much told you how I fe...
GARY CLARK

The Georgia Dome was my home field, brother. There's no question about it. I played my first foo...
BILL GOLDBERG

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist a...
ANNIE LENNOX

Like, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I ...
ELISABETH SHUE

As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionate...
CAITY LOTZ

As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football...
ROBERT GRIFFIN III

I have great respect for Greg Knapp, who was my quarterbacks coach in Denver for three years. He tau...
BROCK OSWEILER

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it...
EMILY BLUNT

We think scientific literacy flows out of how many science facts can you recite rather than how was ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

This finding that antidepressant use was an independent risk factor for mortality in patients with c...
LANA WATKINS

We're not against Barry Bonds as an individual. We're against what he stands for. ... There was no w...
DENNIS COLLINS

As a physician, I try to heal the mind before healing the body. That’s why most of my patients get...
DEBASISH MRIDHA

I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid.
DAVE VAN RONK

I think if you're a good high school player that you have the ability to be a good college footb...
ROBERT GRIFFIN III

I'm theatrically trained. Before Vine, before any of the social media, I was an actor. I was goi...
KING BACH

It was very emotional to get that house. At the same time, it wasn't a surprise. Ronnie has told me ...
JOYCE BROWN

There is an intrinsic urgency (in the Bush administration) because even as we're talking, the (nucle...
DANIEL PONEMAN

He was an extremely modest person, one of the humblest people I knew, although some people might not...
JAMES KOSHIBA

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm st...
MICHAEL VICK

In my life the only thing I know is football. We earned less, but we knew where we started from and ...
SINISA MIHAJLOVIC

They made an offer that was basically the same package as before. There was still no talk of insuran...
CLIFF CARRIER

All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in...
BENNET OMALU

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came fro...
WARREN MOON

Throughout my career, as both a physician and a scientist, I have drawn inspiration from Merck's...
ROGER M. PERLMUTTER

My brain is - essentially, you take any college football player in the country, because I have had m...
DANIEL BRYAN

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not ...
ESTHER WILLIAMS

In Brussels, we were told that there was no question of supporting such an irrational slaughter.
JEAN GLAVANY

There are several patients - there are thousands of patients, tens of thousands of patients, that ca...
MIGUEL NICOLELIS

NFL Head Coach, the third pillar in our NFL portfolio, was developed to satiate all those Monday mor...
DALE JACKSON

Dead at 50. Mike Webster! Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. 'Iron Mike,' legendary Steele...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am...
LENA HEADEY

It was hard to be out of the game. I have a young daughter, so I was keeping busy. But not playing f...
AARON GIBSON

For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story t...
JUAN PABLO DI PACE

As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that...
ERIC RIES

I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using foo...
ADRIAN PETERSON

From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR

I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible wo...
THOMAS SCHLAMME

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ACTION BRONSON

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BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.
RYAN MCPARTLIN

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DEREK CIANFRANCE

As a physician, I'm somewhat an advocate of patients. How come, before Mike Webster, no NFL player was told or knew that there was an intrinsic risk of brain damage from playing football?

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