Calvin Johnson Quotes

For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.

- Calvin Johnson

Fact, Unbelievable, Feels, Surreal

Retired life's good, man.

- Calvin Johnson

Good, Man, Retired, Good Man

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Play, Guy, Finally, Play Football

Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.

- Calvin Johnson

Work, Trying, Take, Smarter

I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

- Calvin Johnson

Think, Been, I Think, Locker Room

It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.

- Calvin Johnson

Game, Some, Carter, Dude

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Love, Back, Some, Trainers

God gave me the ability, so why not? Go out there and play for Him. Maximize the talent He gave you.

- Calvin Johnson

Play, Go, Why, Why Not

All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.

- Calvin Johnson

Pain, Play, Amount, Taxing

Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.

- Calvin Johnson

Game, Area, Figure, Footwork

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Feel, Everybody, Got, Chronic

My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.

- Calvin Johnson

Mom, Bad, Nothing, Strict

Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.

- Calvin Johnson

Game, Sometimes, Unfortunate, Strides

You have to be physical. If you are not, defensive backs will try to pick on you.

- Calvin Johnson

Try, Will, Pick, Defensive

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Practice, Media, Recovering, Season

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Love, Game, Your, Season

I've been a Madden guy since I was little.

- Calvin Johnson

Guy, Been, Since, Madden

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

- Calvin Johnson

Doing, Like, Would, Sitting

Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.

- Calvin Johnson

Ways, Coverage, Toward, Leaning

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Dancing, Prove, Literally, Redeem

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Simple, Career, Over, Fair Share

When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.

- Calvin Johnson

Love, College, Watch, Sundays

If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.

- Calvin Johnson

Me, Play, Keep, Detroit

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Feel, Back, Cause, Compound

Sometimes, I'm just a fan of the guy, and we'll switch jerseys.

- Calvin Johnson

Sometimes, Fan, Guy, Switch

The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.

- Calvin Johnson

Game, Grind, Waking, Hurting

I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.

- Calvin Johnson

Game, Doing, Like, Receiver

Everybody has their struggles.

- Calvin Johnson

Everybody, Struggles

You don't want to disappoint your mama, for that main fact that she's going to get on your behind.

- Calvin Johnson

She, Behind, Disappoint, Mama

Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.

- Calvin Johnson

Mom, Me, Everything, Bless

I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

- Calvin Johnson

Some, Messing, Damage, Nerve

I have not suffered any nerve damage, nor have I received any treatment for nerve damage.

- Calvin Johnson

Nor, Damage, Treatment, Nerve

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Talking, However, About, Actions Speak

My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

- Calvin Johnson

Change, Phone, Number, Blows

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Doing, Year, More, Camps

Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.

- Calvin Johnson

Tell, Get, Guys, Coaches

I like to dress up every now and then.

- Calvin Johnson

Dress, Now, Like, Now And Then

My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

- Calvin Johnson

Cool, Laid, Dad, Cool Guy

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.

- Calvin Johnson

College, Game, Randy, Player

I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.

- Calvin Johnson

Rest, My Life, Going, Hurt

I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

- Calvin Johnson

Too Much, Like, Our, Lions

You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'

- Calvin Johnson

Like, Been, Really, Catch

I don't want to dog the NFL.

- Calvin Johnson

Dog, Want, NFL

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Bad, Finger, Smaller, Bad Boy

I'm just a worker.

- Calvin Johnson

Just, Worker

That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.

- Calvin Johnson

Cheat, Ball, Everybody, Calls

I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.

- Calvin Johnson

People, Own, My Own, Clothes

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Want, Line, Like, Jam

Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

- Calvin Johnson

Time, Going, Any, Injury

When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.

- Calvin Johnson

College, League, Super Bowl, Teammate

I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.

- Calvin Johnson

Kid, Little Kid, Since, Watched

I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.

- Calvin Johnson

Rights, Okay, Anybody, Expressing

My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.

- Calvin Johnson

Help, Give, Biggest, Championship

It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

- Calvin Johnson

Making, Show, Plays, Easy

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Love, Play, Got, Grade

Some days I wouldn't even go to class. I'd sit in the room and play video games with my friends and eat powdered mashed potatoes.

- Calvin Johnson

Play, Some, Potatoes, Video Games

I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

- Calvin Johnson

Doing, Team Win, Going, Coached

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Week, Over, Use, Sunday

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Through, The Only Thing, Ready

I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.

- Calvin Johnson

Think, Big, Still, Contract

That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.

- Calvin Johnson

Goal, Ultimate Goal, Super, Super Bowl

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Team, Down, Want, Smart

I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.

- Calvin Johnson

Myself, Doing, League, Heck

Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.

- Calvin Johnson

Sometimes, Keep, Shut, Mouth

I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?

- Calvin Johnson

Game, Lose, Three, Yards

I've got a lot of miles on my legs.

- Calvin Johnson

Miles, Got, Lot, Legs

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Dealing, Cut, Makes, Ankle

To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you might have worked with it or you personally know, it's cool; it's awesome to sit back and say I know that guy because you're more of a fan of that game and that person.

- Calvin Johnson

Game, More, Might, Personally

I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

- Calvin Johnson

Always, Guy, Southern, iPod

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

- Calvin Johnson

Play, Happen, Other, Third

I am not cocky or real showboatish.

- Calvin Johnson

I Am, Real, Am, Cocky

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Will, Some, Made, It Is What It Is

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Beginning, Middle, More, Gotta

I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.

- Calvin Johnson

Play, Think, I Think, Ball

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.

- Calvin Johnson

College, Knock, Everybody, Privilege

We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.

- Calvin Johnson

Understand, Playing, League, Privilege

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.

- Calvin Johnson

Game, Out, Got, Defense

I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.

- Calvin Johnson

Left, Had, While, Field

The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.

- Calvin Johnson

Nature, Needs, Allow, Field

I've got nothing to be ashamed of.

- Calvin Johnson

Nothing, Got, Ashamed

I'm not coming back to play.

- Calvin Johnson

Play, Back, Coming

I'm going to discipline my kids, and can't no one tell me how to discipline my kids.

- Calvin Johnson

Tell, How, Going, Discipline

It's not a public matter when you discipline your family.

- Calvin Johnson

Matter, Public, Your, Discipline

I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.

- Calvin Johnson

Always, Been, Take, After

I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

- Calvin Johnson

Father, Son, Dad, I Can

If you have injuries, it's tough.

- Calvin Johnson

Tough, You, Injuries

I put up some great numbers.

- Calvin Johnson

Great, Some, Up, Numbers

My thing is, everything I do, I leave it out there and let the chips fall where they may.

- Calvin Johnson

Fall, Leave, May, Chips

I feel fine as long I'm not running around.

- Calvin Johnson

Feel, Running, I Feel, Fine

My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.

- Calvin Johnson

Better, Want, Makes, Son

Just try to add more things to my game each year.

- Calvin Johnson

Game, Year, More, Add

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