Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.

J. J. Watt

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Success isn't owned - it's leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone's coming for your job. Someone's coming for your greatness. If you're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.

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

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Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day. by J. J. Watt

Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day.

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Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

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Heard someone say, 'I can't wait until I can finally say I've made it.' The day you think you've 'made it' is the day you begin your decline.

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Greatness is earned, not given. by J. J. Watt

Greatness is earned, not given.

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I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.

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Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever i... by J. J. Watt

Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best.

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I definitely care about what I look like, certainly when I am going out in public, doing an appearance or something, but when I'm home, I'm all sweatpants, all the time.

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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.

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I don't give a score prediction, but I am a defensive guy, so I'll definitely be looking forward to a defensive game.

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I'm a little more goofy than I think people give me credit for. I like to have fun. I like to have a good time. People don't always get to see that.

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I don't got that kind of money man, commercials only pay so much... by J. J. Watt

I don't got that kind of money man, commercials only pay so much (inaudible).

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

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

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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created... by J. J. Watt

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

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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.

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I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I want a house and a dog in the yard. I want to have barbecues.

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I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

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

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

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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.

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