Calvin Johnson Quotes
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I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
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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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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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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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My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.
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I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.
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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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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
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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 don't want to dog the NFL.
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I'm an honest guy.
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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 think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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Retired life's good, man.
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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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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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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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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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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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I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.
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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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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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If you feel like you've got a concussion, if you don't know, if you take the test whatever, if you feel like you've got a concussion, the biggest thing is rest, man. Cause you usually compound your injury so much if you go back out there, and we all know that now.