Calvin Johnson Quotes

"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."

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

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

"I'm just a worker."

"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."

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

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

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I like to dress up every now and then."

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

"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."

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

"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.'"

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

"I know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know."

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

"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."

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

"I'm not coming back to play."

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

"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."

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

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