Top 50 Deshaun Watson Quotes

I’m not afraid of who I am.

Each big play is always a confidence-booster.

What makes a home to me is the energy. I’m a big energy person, so somewhere that I can relax, feel free and not have to worry about anything.

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.

I just want to be a complete professional quarterback, and that’s going to take time.

I love the work, love the grind. I love what I have to go through to get what I want.

My experience, and my results, kind of speak for itself.

The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can’t change them. But I can show them what they’re missing.

I just really know how to manage adversity.

It’s not overwhelming or shocking to play against the SEC, like most fans think.

If I have the opportunity to go to the NFL, I’m going to take it.

It doesn’t matter my size. It’s more a mindset. That’s what people don’t understand. It’s the size the media talks about, but they don’t know my heart.

I’m the best player in the country. That’s how I think. That’s how I feel.

I’ve always been positive.

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

God doesn’t make mistakes.

I just go out there and play.

I love all people, and that’s what I focus on.

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

I grew up with pretty much nothing – in the hood, the ghetto – whatever you want to call it.

I don’t go into a game thinking I’m going to run more than I’m going to pass. So it just depends on what the defense is going to bring in the situation of the game and what happens that play.

When I’m on the field, I’m locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

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.

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.

Whenever you’re falling or getting tackled, try to protect yourself. But that’s part of the game; that’s part of football.

My mom said it’s always positive vibes. I love good vibes, and that’s what I get off people all of the time. That’s what I want to give out to other people is those vibes and to have hope and dreams and to build that confidence and be encouraged to do whatever they want in life if they put their mind to it.

For me, I just try to do what’s best for the team.

Each injury is different regardless of whether it’s the same type of injury, so you have to make sure you’re doing it right and doing everything like you should so you come back 100% and don’t have to go through all of it again.

I’m not Superman.

I don’t like sitting around and not doing anything because that’s the easiest way to get complacent and get lazy.

I’m just going to do what I can do, not worry about taking hits. I’m not going to shy away from that… I’m going to try to protect myself and make sure I do my job.

We barely had lights, but my mom always made sure we had food on the table and somewhere to sleep.

I was a ball boy for the Atlanta Falcons; I was a tax assessor – this was all in high school – I was an account assistant at the courthouse, and then I was a real estate assistant.

I’m blessed to play a game I love, to throw a football, to have the things I have. There were times before where I didn’t have those things, I was still blessed. I’ve always been happy.

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

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

I think about my mom and the things she went through, and things could always be a lot worse.

I watched Tim Tebow and how he played and how he carried himself and the good that he did for the game on and off the field. I knew that’s what I wanted to do.

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

It’s good to be able to run and have a balanced offense. They’ve got to be worried about both things. They can’t just focus on the run game or the passing game and have us locked down that way. So when you have balance, good things are going to happen on offense.

Health has always been my first priority. If it’s something that is going to make it worse, or if I’m not cleared by the doctors, then, you know, I won’t step on the field.

You correct the mistakes, and you move on.

People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It’s a stereotype put on me for a long time because I’m African-American, and I’m a dual-threat quarterback.

I know who I am and what I can do.

I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won’t have problems. I really believe that. But that’s just me; that’s what I’ve tried to do because that’s how my mother raised me.

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.’

I’m a lot more comfortable on the field than I am talking in front of a crowd.

People think, ‘Oh, he’s a black quarterback, he must be dual-threat.’ People throw around that word all the time. It’s lazy.

I’m not Jadeveon Clowney; I’m Deshaun Watson, so I just focus on me and what I can do for my team. I stay in my own lane and do what I’ve got to do.