Quotes from Calvin Johnson

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Retired life's good, man.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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