J. J. Watt Quotes

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J. J. Watt

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 22, 1989

There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

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A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it. Don't let that happen to you. You've done so much work; you've put in so much effort. Don't let one moment ruin your entire life because you wanted to be funny or you were mad or because you had a mood.

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My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on their own on Christmas Day.

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If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

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When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you worked hard enough. You can try to lie to yourself. You can try to tell yourself that you put in the time. But you know - and so do I.

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If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.

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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.

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I love brunch. Brunch is my favorite meal.

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Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.

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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.

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I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.

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I live for Sundays. I live for Mondays. I live for Thursdays.

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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

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I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do.

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Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.

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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.

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It's a very violent game, and bodies take a beating, so you want to make sure you do everything you can to get your body back. It's just something you have to do.

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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.

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I was impressionable at that age, and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids.

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