T. J. Watt Quotes

T. J. Watt

Profession : Football Player

Birth : October 11, 1994

I know some of the guys, especially the younger guys, have a lot going on mentally. If they're in the spot to make a nice play, you can't forget it's very tough to make plays. When you make them, you have to celebrate.

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Part of it, in my role now, more of a leader, just trying to set the tone.

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My dad was a youth football coach who coached J.J. and Derek, so I grew up taking water to guys.

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The only thing for us was Pewaukee athletics. My grandpa would yell at the TV for the Packers to stop running the ball on third down. Like that was pretty much how much NFL we watched.

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We didn't really watch college until J.J. got there. It was Pewaukee athletics. Youth baseball playing together. Youth football. Basketball. We did everything. Ball boys on Friday nights. We couldn't get enough of Pewaukee athletics.

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To be able to say that you're a state champion in high school is so awesome and I'm so jealous of it.

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I have nothing but good things to say about the people of Pittsburgh.

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You have so much going through your mind when you're rushing the passer, especially on the left side. You don't have time to really look at the hands of the offensive linemen, so you have to make it second nature, and the only way to do that is through muscle memory and reps.

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A great pass rush is all four guys up front working together.

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It always sucks not being 100% going into games, and just to have that in the back of your mind, you're warming up and you're not feeling 100%.

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My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong.

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All that outside noise, people can say what they want about me. But at the end of the day, it's the people that are in my inner circle that I care about.

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Our cul de sac we always had roller hockey going on, we had the big backyard, our neighbors had big backyards that connected all the backyards, and we had football, baseball, anything you can imagine. And then, in our basement, we had a real-size hockey net, we'd go down and shoot hockey before dinner.

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We always were competing, no matter what it was, and it always ended up getting too rough and someone crying or someone getting a dead leg or dead arm, getting punched too hard and crying to Mom or Dad... It was fun, though. It made us who we are today.

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I just feel like at any given moment I can make a splash play.

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JJ is five years older than me and Derek is two years older, but they always included me in everything they did.

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We were the house everybody came to. We had baseball in the backyard, roller hockey in the front yard. For football we connected three neighbor backyards to make one huge football field. We prided ourselves on being competitive.

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There are so many people that don't love to practice, but when the game is taken away from you, you'll give anything to just be out there on the practice field.

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I don't think that you're always gonna get the results that you want just 'cause sacks are so hard to come by, but I think you can consistently beat the guy if you're putting in the time and the effort, and you have the confidence.

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I rush on the left side of the football, so I can always see where the quarterback's looking and where the football is, so as you're rushing the passer and turning the corner against a tackle, the ball is always in sight.

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