J. J. Watt Quotes

When things go well, people like everything you do. When things don't go well, people look for 1,001 explanations, and they don't understand you're a human being.

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people.

If you get anything done, you will be criticized

You have not quite lived in this ridiculously silly celebrity culture until you've been told one day how loved you are and the next day how hated you are - and sometimes by the same individual.

The moment our youth succeed, we try to figure out how to tear them down.

Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.

Duke has a lot of haters, but I know it means you're doing something right if they're hating you.

Name me a person in public life who doesn't have critics. Especially women in public life.

One day you are a hero, the next day, media and people put you down if you are not giving your best.

Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.

There's only one thing people love more than their heroes, and that's stomping them into the ground.

When we were unknown, you don't get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it's all part of the game.

When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

If there's a spotlight on you, people are going to look for a reason to bring you down.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

Cynics criticize and winners analyze.

I've sold too many books to get good reviews anymore. There's a lot of jealousy, because [reviewers] think they can write a good novel or a best-seller and get frustrated when they can't. I've learned to despise them.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

The First Lady is going to be criticized no matter what she does.