Greatest Story Ever Bowled...
“This might sound strange coming from me, because I’m about as old and as cynical as they come,” said Robertson. “But what J.J. has got is a charisma that you don’t often see these days among professional athletes. He seems to be the real thing—an old-fashioned, down-to-earth hero of sorts who hasn’t let all the fame mess with his head. After that charity softball game, he actually sent me a personal tweet saying, ‘Hey, Dale, thanks for coming out.’ I mean, who does that anymore?”....
Watt doesn’t just work hard. “J.J. is completely, utterly obsessed,” said Lechler. “I get to the stadium at six-twenty in the morning, and he’s already there, his truck parked in the front row. And while the rest of us go home by three, he usually is there until the evening. Sometimes he’ll text me, asking me where I am, letting me know he is still lifting weights, making himself better, trying to win us a championship.”
In truth, Watt has made one concession to being a very wealthy man. He has begun chartering private jets whenever he needs to take a trip. But there is a practical reason for that, he told me. It saves him from spending several hours in the airport, which makes it far easier to get in his two daily weight workouts. Nothing, of course, gets in the way of Watt’s weight workouts. As he said during a press conference before his charity softball game, “I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better. I want to go out and chase greatness. That’s all I want to do.” -
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