17 Quotes by Bennet Omalu

My son is 6. I wouldn't let my six-year-old son near any football field. And if any coach asks my son to play football, I'll sue that coach, and I'll sue the school.

Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.

No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.

Actually, I'm for football. But I'm for intelligent football that enhances us rather than football that steals away who we are.

I grew up in Africa, in Nigeria. I never knew, I never had any reasonable encounter with football. I saw football on Sky News. I thought there were people dressed like extraterrestrials, you know, like they were going to Mars or something, headgears and shoulder pads. And I wondered why, as a child, why did they have to dress that way.

Will Smith's acting reaffirms my belief in the American perfection.

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

There is no safe blow to the head, especially for a child.