Calvin Johnson Quotes
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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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You never know what can happen in football. It's football.
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It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made relationships that will never end.
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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.
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I don't want to dog the NFL.
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You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.
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I'm an honest guy.
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Retired life's good, man.
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The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They're some good people, you know. They want to see you do good. But at the same time, they work for the team, you know. They're trying to do whatever they can to get you back on the field and make your team look good.
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My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.
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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.
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It's a part of football, you get concussed, you gotta keep on playing. You can't get afraid to go across the middle any more than you were at the beginning.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
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I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.
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You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.
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Not many of my friends I had from college are playing in this league. Everybody knows it's a privilege, so you definitely don't knock it because you never know where you may end up.
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All of us growing up, if you're a professional player or a college player, you're molding your game after guys. You see guys, you see things guys do. Like Randy Moss, I'm a Randy Moss guy.
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Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.
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I got chronic stuff that everybody has when they're done playing football for any length of time. So the good thing is I'm able to walk. I feel good. I'm able to spend more time with the fam.
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As NFL players, we have such a platform to spread the Word of God. And that is an area I don't mind speaking out on at all. As far as talking about my football skills, however, I will let my abilities and actions speak for themselves.
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It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.