A biography for Calvin Johnsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm just a worker.”
“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.”
“God gave me the ability, so why not? Go out there and play for Him. Maximize the talent He gave you.”
“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.”
“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 know where my body's at, know how it feels, you know.”
“I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.”
“I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.”
“I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.”
“Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.”
“I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.”
“I feel fine as long I'm not running around.”
“When you're in the game, you're still in the moment.”
“If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.”
“I'm okay with anybody expressing their rights.”
“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.”
“Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.”
“I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.”
“I don't want to dog the NFL.”