Calvin Johnson Quotes
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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It wasn't really until the 10th or 11th grade when I started to play well, and football took the place of baseball, which was my love when I was five years old. I don't know what happened; baseball just got boring to me, I guess.
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I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
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You want to be smart. You don't want to put yourself in a position where you can't be there for the team when it comes down to the end.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
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My thing is, everything I do, I leave it out there and let the chips fall where they may.
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Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.
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Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.
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It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.
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I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.
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I gotta go through, like, a little routine when I wake up in the morning to get everything functioning and ready to go. But, the only thing is everything just goes back to gridlock so fast once I sit down, 'cause you know you go to work again.
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Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.
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I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.
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I have not suffered any nerve damage, nor have I received any treatment for nerve damage.
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I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
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I put up some great numbers.
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
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I had great stats in my career, you know, but really, you want to win.
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I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.
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I am not cocky or real showboatish.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.