I grew up in Wisconsin loving hockey. I mean, I started when I was three years old on skates. – J. J. Watt
Obviously, you get to do a lot of great things and cool opportunities at the Super Bowl. But at the end of the day, we all want to be here as a player. That’s the goal, and that’s why I work so dang hard. – J. J. Watt
The one thing I know is, if I play good ball, things have tended to come along with it. Everything that I’ve ever done in my career has come off of playing good football. And so I realize I need to go out there, and I need to take care of my business; then everything else – all these cool, great things – come along with it. – J. J. Watt
There’s plenty of days when I don’t want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make. – J. J. Watt
There are games where I go a whole game without saying a word. There are games where I’m talking the whole game. It really depends on the mood and vibe that I’m in that day. – J. J. Watt
You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father. – J. J. Watt
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. – J. J. Watt
In the off-season, I train twice a day, five times a week with my trainer. Then, there’s always massages and neuromuscular therapy worked in there as well on different days. – J. J. Watt
I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what’s capable of being made. – J. J. Watt
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. – J. J. Watt
It’s literally, if I’m not working out, I eat the whole time I’m not working out. It’s exhausting. You have to force-feed. You have to force yourself to eat food. – J. J. Watt
Part of me wants nothing to do with any Hollywood. But another part of me wants to go there. I feel like I could be successful at it. – J. J. Watt
I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It’s always eating. – J. J. Watt
You don’t know who wants you for you, who wants you for the money, who wants you for the fame. You have no idea. And how would you know? There’s no way. – J. J. Watt
I respect every guy that has walked away. I think every single guy in this league makes his own decision, and that’s perfectly fine. The reason I respect that and the reason I think every guy has his own way of dealing with things is because, in my personal opinion, I know what I’m getting into. – J. J. Watt
No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround. – J. J. Watt
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. – J. J. Watt
You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One Direction. Everything is on there. – J. J. Watt
I know that I’m going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that’s part of football. That’s like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger’s way, and you accept that risk, and you do it. – J. J. Watt
I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it’s hard to control the game. – J. J. Watt
