Quotes from Deshaun Watson

It took a long time for me to put a smile on my face over the course of my lifetime, and my experience of what I've been through on and off the field.

Between lunch and dinner, I try and snack on fruit and granola.

As we play, I just kind of make the best decision and try to move the chains.

It's just something I always dreamed about when I was little. I always thinking about playing in an All-American game, and the Under Armour All-America Game was the one game I always wanted to play in, so once I got the opportunity and invite, I chose it.

My reads, operation with the offense, timing with the receivers, routes, sitting in the pocket, trusting my line - everything is always a work in progress.

Every time I have the ball in my hands, which is every play, I feel I'm the best player on the team. That's just my mentality. I'm not saying that in a cocky way, but everybody should have that mentality when they step on that field.

I respect everyone that mentioned my name and said good things about me. I appreciate it.

Hopefully, one day, I'll be up there with Michael Jordan.

When we get in the red zone, we have the mentality that we're trying to get points. We're not satisfied with three points. We're trying to get touchdowns each time we get in there.

We just got to capitalize in the red zone. Don't turn the ball over.

I'm going to give all my will and all my guts to try to get the ball in the end zone.

My high school coach was a big Clemson fan, and I told him, 'As long as I'm the starting quarterback here, I'm not going to lose to South Carolina.'

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today - the way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

I am a momma's boy, so she gets whatever she wants.

It's very motivating, very aspiring to have the knowledge of me being able to be successful so young and have players go out of their way to talk about me.

Clemson was a special place, and I've enjoyed every single moment.

There's only so much that you can control, especially when the game speed is super, super fast, and guys are flying at you, and you're trying to make a play and get rid of the ball.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

You correct the mistakes, and you move on.

I have some muscle on me where I can take those hits.

815 is the neighborhood I was born and raised in; 815 Harrison Square is the exact name. It's in Gainesville, Georgia.

As a rookie, I worked with my agent and the training staff to figure out what diet works for my body naturally.

It's a privilege to be in this position, to have people want to talk to me, to have people want to hear my story and hear what's going on, because it can easily be on the flip side, and no one wants to talk to me, no one respects me one-on-one, no one in the stands wearing my jersey. It's a blessing.

I never forget where I come from. It means everything.