Calvin Johnson Quotes
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I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.
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I don't want to dog the NFL.
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I put up some great numbers.
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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 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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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 had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
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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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Anything negative that comes at me throughout the week, you just take it and put it in that box over there for motivation and use it on Sunday.
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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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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
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My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.
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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'm an honest guy.
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Retired life's good, man.
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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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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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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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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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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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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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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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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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It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.