CALVIN JOHNSON

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

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

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.

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.

Sometimes, I'm just a fan of the guy, and we'll switch jerseys.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.

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

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.

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

My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.

I've got a lot of miles on my legs.

Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.

I'm not coming back to play.

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

I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

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

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.

My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.

I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.