Calvin Johnson Quotes & Sayings

You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through. — Calvin Johnson

D-Bo had a great game, so now a lot of teams, they're not sure what to do. They can't just key on me. They've got to key on both of us. D-Bo had a coming-out party. — Calvin Johnson

I don't really get too frustrated. I know I'm going to get the ball. — Calvin Johnson

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

The goal every year is to win the Super Bowl, not just to get to the playoffs, not just to win a few games. — Calvin Johnson

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

Hopefully I can finish my degree before I get done playing and work with my foundation. — Calvin Johnson

The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous, — Calvin Johnson

I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running. — Calvin Johnson

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

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

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

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

I am here to put out a positive athlete, — Calvin Johnson

During the season, I dodge the media. After practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering. — Calvin Johnson

I'm not going to lie and say that I'm good at Madden. There are some good players out there. There are some good players on the team. I get skunked all of the time. — Calvin Johnson

You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't. — Calvin Johnson

If our next president is a woman, it will be Hilary Clinton and our country will be all the better for it. — Calvin Johnson

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

I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough. — Calvin Johnson

There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us. — Calvin Johnson

The old people, they struggled, they fought the elements, they fought everything was against them here. The river, the summers and the heat. So finally when they settled Hurricane there and got the water on that bench, most of them left. — Calvin Johnson