Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by J. J. Watt

I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.

Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.

I love brunch. Brunch is my favorite meal.

It sounds weird when you complain about having to eat so much, but it's like a job.

My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.

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.

I'm not strict on my calorie count; I just pay attention to my body.

Read each tweet about 95 times before you send it. Look at every Instagram post about 95 times before you send it.

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.

As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.

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.

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

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.

I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.

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.

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

I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.

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.

My cheat meals aren't even that exciting.

I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.

Over the years, I've learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it's a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.

I Googled 'What do rich people buy?' Because I don't feel like a rich person, and I don't really try to act like a rich person, so I don't know what they buy. I didn't really like the stuff I saw, so I'm gonna stick with my humble lifestyle and just keep working out.

I'm sure I frustrate the trainers - in fact, I know I frustrate the trainers to no end. But I think there's a very fine line. I listen to their advice. I take their medical expertise very seriously. But then I also, the reason I am where I am, the reason I play the way I play, is because I push beyond normal.

A quarterback is always going to be the most valuable player on a football field because he touches the ball every single offensive play.

I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.

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?

My whole life, I've been trying to make people proud.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.

If you're thinking like that - 'Does this person want me for me?' - then you're gonna have a hell of a hard time falling in love, 'cause you're constantly thinking about what they look like on paper.

Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.

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.

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.

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

You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One Direction. Everything is on there.

I just go out there every game and try to be the best I can be for our team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.

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.

I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.

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

Trust me, I would love to have a wife and kids. I would very much enjoy that. But I also know that you have to be in the right place to do that.

I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I love sports.' What I also get are letters from a whole bunch of moms saying, 'My daughter is awesome,' and, 'My daughter is a great daughter.'

I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.

I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

It may not matter to anybody now, but when you go out there and perform on the field, that's what matters.

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.

What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

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.

I'm always trying to learn and grow, so my diet has, over the years, evolved.

I'm a kid who grew up working hard.

When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.