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J.J. Watt wants to be high school football coach one day

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Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt is only 27, but he's already thinking about what he wants to do after his NFL career is over.

Watt envisions himself as a high school football coach once he retires, he told SportsRadio 610 on Friday.

"I think I would be coaching high school football in some capacity," Watt said. "If that requires being a high school gym teacher, whatever it may be, however I can do that, I just want to have that impact. And that is what I want to do when I'm done (playing in the NFL). I want to coach high school football and that's always what I've wanted to do."

That's not the only alternative career path Watt is considering, though. He'd also like to be a movie star.

"Maybe my life takes me a different path with movies and things like that, but as of right now, at some point in my life I will definitely coach high school football," he said. "Just because the impact you can have on kids, and the wisdom you can help give them and teach them and I think they are so impressionable. I was impressionable at that age and my high school coach did such an unbelievable job helping me, so I want to do that for other kids."

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