J. J. Watt Quotes

People would really hate playing against me if I could touch them.

I like to bump people, to feel me getting into somebody's jersey. I'm just different. I like contact, like physical play, like pushing and holding. But I'm not dirty.

I never want to hurt a player but being physical is different. Body to body.

It's brutal out on the football field.

Malice is part of football, I wouldn't call it illegitimate.

I love offensive physicality.

I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.

In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that.

Every time Luis Suarez is close, he pushes defenders around.

When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

Football is a violent game. We are violent men.

I've never been scared of contact. Now I get to bring it, that's what I love to do, so I'm going to bring it.

One of the more bizarre games I played as a kid was something called 'kill the man.' It was a cross between football and rugby, which found the person carrying the ball a target of some hungry tacklers. I still don't know why we enjoyed the game because it was impossible to win.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.

I was always fighting with everyone when I was a kid. I was playing with people two or three years older than me, and I had to survive. So I love the physical game, the contact. And I don't know why, but I think football is like this. It is not just touching the ball and stringing together 50 pretty passes consecutively.

Definitely, I got a reputation growing up playing on the guys' hockey teams. The guys knew how tough I was because I played with them. I got quite a good reputation for beating up boys going up through school.

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

This is a virile sport in which physical contact is allowed.

Football, no one wants to ram into people. It's not human nature. You have to have a lot of incentive to ram into somebody to benefit others.

When we were playing, it was rough and tough. Even superstars like me fouled out a lot.

I've done it before, and I might do it whenever we need to as a big guy... I'll take it. A hard foul is part of the game, which is good.

I don't know how many times you see 10s tackle each other.

There are times when hard fouls are just a part of the game, and then there's times when they're a little bit further than that.

Some of my best tackles were the most dangerous!