- Dr. Byron Stewart: You're not a reporter are you?
- Dr. David Bruce Banner: No! No, but I did read all your earlier books. I was very impressed: The seeds of aggression lie deep in the subconscious mind. Aggressive behavior is nothing more than an acting out of those subconscious thoughts.
- Dr. Byron Stewart: That's very good. But of course others have said much the same thing: Waldheim, Marshall, Banner.
- Dr. David Bruce Banner: Ah yes, but Banner was talking about strength, not aggression. The ability to find a well of hidden strength at a moment of crisis.
- Dr. Byron Stewart: Perhaps Dr. Banner failed to see that the source of that hidden well is the same for both things.
- Dr. David Bruce Banner: Perhaps.
- Dr. Byron Stewart: We call it the Coliseum. Every Sunday they come out here and gear themselves to hit another human being as hard as they possibly can. And 75,000 people come here to cheer them on. All out aggression. except that when the whistle blows, they turn it off just like that.
- Dr. David Bruce Banner: Anger and control in the same moment.
- Dr. Byron Stewart: Exactly. We all have it in us, David, to varying degrees. When we need to be angry, or tough or aggressive, we somehow reach into our subconscious and come up with just the right amount and then shut the rest off, hopefully. But if we don't, if we cross over that line, isn't that what abnormally aggressive behavior is all about? We go to bring up just that one bucket full of anger, and suddenly you can't seem to stop there. Do you know what I mean?
- Dr. David Bruce Banner: Oh yes, I know exactly what you mean, doctor.
- Dr. David Bruce Banner: John, you have lost the ability to distinguish between anger you have felt in the past and the present. Between what is real and what is not.
- John Tobey: Shut up! I told ya, I don't want to hear this.
- Dr. David Bruce Banner: I'm trying to tell this to you as a friend.
- John Tobey: I got all the friends I need. 75.000 of them. Every Sunday. 75,000 friends yelling Tobey, Tobey Tobey!
- J.P. Tobey: John, shake hands and act like a man. Now, I don't want to hear you whining about it anymore.
- Young John Tobey: I don't shake hands with a cheater.
- J.P. Tobey: Do it.
- June Tobey: [to David] There's something about you, something I can feel. You understand what's happening to Johnny. I don't know how or why, but you do.
- [Bob tests a whipping motion with a towel]
- Bob Turner: Now you could really hurt someone with this thing. That's bad, man.
- Tony Bowers: Yeah. We wouldn't want Burnett here to think that we're out of control, now would we? He might suggest to Haggerty that he bench us both.
- Kermit Connelly: You lousy grandstander. You hit me late.
- John Tobey: I did not.
- Kermit Connelly: You meant to hurt me. So don't come around here sulking and pretending to apologize.
- John Tobey: It was an accident. Things like that happen at every game.
- Kermit Connelly: They do when you're playing.
- [Bob and Tony are talking to Coach Haggerty about the Hulk]
- Bob Turner: I'm telling you, Coach, the guy had to go 290 and there wasn't an ounce of fat on him.
- Coach Haggerty: So where is he?
- Tony Bowers: Hey, Coach, he wrecked the place and I, I guess he disappeared.
- Coach Haggerty: And he was green, right? Playing for Green Bay? Let me know when you got his name on a contract! In the meantime, stop taking whatever it is you're taking before the commissioner's office gets wind of it!