Top 66 Calvin Johnson Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

Retired life’s good, man.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I put up some great numbers.

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.

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

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

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

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

When you’re in the game, you’re still in the moment.

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

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.

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

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

You never know what can happen in football. It’s football.

If you have injuries, it’s tough.

I like to dress up every now and then.

I’m not coming back to play.

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

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.

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

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.

It’s cool because football, as much as it gives, it takes away a lot, too.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.

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.

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

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.

I’ve got a lot of miles on my legs.

I’m an honest guy.

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

I’m just a worker.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I’ve got a lot of other things I want to do.

I am not cocky or real showboatish.

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

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.