J. J. Watt Quotes

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

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

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

Greatness is earned, not given.

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.

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

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the Arctic.

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.

There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.

I wanna try and stay a student for life.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.

Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

What we do every day - whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, China can have a very negative impact on an entire way of life for an entire people far away from that source

People today are too concerned about saving time and having convenience.

My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us to occupy the land until Jesus returns.

The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

I'm like a bottle of milk with gloves.

Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.

I was driven from my position as Interior Secretary, not because of my environmental record, but because of my Christian beliefs. That's the real struggle.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

North Carolina's approach in crafting its law ensured the creation of the best possible law and, consequently, North Carolina is now the acknowledged leader in addressing predatory lending.

People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

At the finish, it was all over

Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.

I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.

I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.

There are times when quantity is at least as important as quality in learning an art.

I have a car business and if I had to do an estimate on my face, I would probably write it off.

Some things never die, and they often get way better.

Life is definitely not a rehearsal, this is it.

I want to be a student for life.

You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music.

Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

My modus operandi has always been understatement and that just doesn't really work in pop.

I think you have to start taking a few risks and sometimes they don't pay off.

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

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?

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

Take the first step. No more, no less, and the next will be revealed.

There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.

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.