Quotes from Calvin Johnson

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.'

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

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.

I am here to put out a positive athlete.

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

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

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.

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

I am not cocky or real showboatish.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.