Quotes from 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.'

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.

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.

It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.

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

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.

I love the Stanley Cup playoffs.

I don't want to play forever. I want to give everything I can now and then walk away knowing I gave everything. The example I think of is Barry Sanders. He was such a great player, and he left when he was still on top. I want that to be me.

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results. You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

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.

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

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

If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

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.

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.

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.

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.