Quotes by Calvin Johnson - Page 2

I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Contract
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Super Bowl
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Bowl
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During the season, I dodge the media. After practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Media
Nfl
Practice
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If our next president is a woman, it will be Hilary Clinton and our country will be all the better for it.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Country
Next
President
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The goal every year is to win the Super Bowl, not just to get to the playoffs, not just to win a few games.
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Games
Winning
Years
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I would like to go down as the greatest receiver in this game. I'm not doing all this hard work for nothing.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Hard Work
Receiver
Greatest
Work Hard Work Game
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When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Super Bowl
Teammate
Bowl
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You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through.
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Opinion
Ready
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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.'
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Balls
Has Beens
Nfl
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Injured
Unfortunate
Game
Definitely
Prevent
Strides
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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.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Bad Boy
Bad Boy Bad Boy
Finger
More And More
Smaller
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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.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Mashed Potatoes
Potatoes
Video Games
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Any time you're dealing with an ankle, you've got to run, you've got to cut, you've got to do all those things. It makes it tough.
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Ankle
Dealing
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The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Recovery
Support
Volunteer
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The team needs me out there on the field. And sometimes you allow that to jeopardize yourself, but that's just the nature of the world.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Jeopardize
Nature World Me
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Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
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Defense
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It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made relationships that will never end.
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It Is What It Is
Guys
Relationships
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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.
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Fair Share
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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.
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Coached
Exactly What
Team Win
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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.'
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Funny Me See
Catch
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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.
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Sunday
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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.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Camps
Each Year
Programs
More And More
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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.
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Gotta
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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.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Dance
Sister
Dancing With The Stars
Prove
Stars
Wrong
Literally
Redeem
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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.
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Lying
Player
Team
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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.
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Keys
Party
Team
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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.
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Convinced
Scared
Mom Football Me
Grade
Play Football
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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.
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Surreal
Unbelievable
Shoe
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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.
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Jam
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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.
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College
Growing Up
Molding
Moss
Randy
Guys
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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Family Time Myself
Heck
Statement
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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.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Feel Good
Football
Length
Time Good Football
Time Good Walk
Chronic
Good Thing
Walk
Spend
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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.
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Sweat
Tears
Mentally
Good Pain Me
Taxing
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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.
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Love Football Me
Grade
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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.
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Nfl
Spread
Actions
Actions Speak
Platform
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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.
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People
Rivers
Summer
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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.
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Locker Room
Rings
Gravitate
Locker
Playoff
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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.
Calvin Johnson / American Football Player
Footwork
Improvement
Never Ending
Life Work Yourself
Be Real
Life Work Game
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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.
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Routine
Work Morning Wake Up
Gotta
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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.
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School
Thinking
Winning
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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.
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Biggest Thing
Compound
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To be able to sit back and enjoy the game, sit back and watch guys that you know played and you might have worked with it or you personally know, it's cool; it's awesome to sit back and say I know that guy because you're more of a fan of that game and that person.
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Awesome
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The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They're some good people, you know. They want to see you do good. But at the same time, they work for the team, you know. They're trying to do whatever they can to get you back on the field and make your team look good.
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Good People
Team
Trainers
Love Time Work
Doctor
Love Work Time
Same Time
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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.
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Love Work Time
Leg
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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.
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Father
House
Mother
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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.
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Dodge
Recovering
Time Me Body
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