Quotes About Calvin Johnson

#1. We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.

Bill Cowher

#2. Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages
they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spirit ... -Calvin Johnson

Michael Azerrad

#3. The guys that are out there now like Calvin Johnson and Larry Fitzgerald they're making $16 million, $15 million a year, and I'm not looking for anything like that. A lot of that money goes to the quarterback position and rightfully so.

Brandon Marshall

#4. 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

#5. So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong?
In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.

Calvin Johnson

#7. 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

#8. No matter how poor a man is, if he's confident, he can move a mountain".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#9. For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them.

Edmund Morris

#10. Freedom is the Key to Happiness.

Jan Jansen

#11. 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

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

Calvin Johnson

#13. 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

#14. I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.

Alice Cooper

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

Calvin Johnson

#16. Now everyday ain't gonna be no picnic
Love ain't no walk in the park
All you can do is make the best of it now
Can't be afraid of the dark
Just know that you're not in this thing alone
There's always a place in me that you can call home.

Cheryl Cole

#17. The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous,

Calvin Johnson

#18. 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

#19. We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border ... We will find a compromise within the country.

Petro Poroshenko

#20. I like to run the slants. The slants are cool. I like routes that you can catch the ball running.

Calvin Johnson

#21. If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today ... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone ... we must be compassionate!

Josephine Bakhita

#22. 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

#23. I'm a Southern guy, so Jeezy, T.I., and Outkast are always playing on my iPod.

Calvin Johnson

#24. I don't really get too frustrated. I know I'm going to get the ball.

Calvin Johnson

#25. 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

#26. Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

Jimmy Hoffa

#27. Sometimes we meet a character and we fall so hopelessly in love with him or her that we want to be that character, no matter how tough they have it, no matter how they might mess things up.

Sherman Alexie

#28. Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Kenneth Clark

#29. 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

#30. The environment near Gargantua will become more dangerous for individual life forms, including humans, promoting faster evolution if enough individuals survive.

Kip S. Thorne

#31. Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

Calvin Jillson

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

Calvin Johnson

#33. I am here to put out a positive athlete,

Calvin Johnson

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Hopefully I can finish my degree before I get done playing and work with my foundation.

Calvin Johnson

#37. Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

Raymond E. Feist

#38. 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