Calvin Johnson Quotes

I think every kid who wants to play in the NFL has a dream of hoisting that Lombardi. It's what we all strive for, and it's the end goal for every team.

I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.

When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.

That's the great thing about the NFL: A team can get hot and win a championship.

Coming from a small South Dakota school, it was a different route to get to the NFL. I went from South Dakota State to the World League of American Football with the Amsterdam Admirals, and fortunately I did well enough there that the New England Patriots decided to sign me and give me a chance.

You go to the Super Bowl in your second year and you're like, 'OK, cool. I'll be back next year or the year after that.'

Just to have the opportunity to play in the NFL, I think it's the biggest dream come true for me.

The NFL has been good to me.

The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

Most of my recognition comes from us winning that championship. The words may not come out - 'Super Bowl III' - because a lot of the folks at the grocery store, gas station or mall weren't even born when we won the Super Bowl. But they're aware of it. It has had a tremendous impact on my life since then.

Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.

I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.

Football, I thought, would be a tough sport to make a living in. There is no minor league. You either make it to the NFL or you don't.

When I was drafted in Cleveland, I wanted to turn this team back into a perennial playoff contender and to win the Super Bowl.

If you don't win a Super Bowl, you're not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.

I feel like winning a Super Bowl is like a lifetime thing. Come on? How many great players that haven't been here, some that haven't won.

The NFL - that's my No. 1 goal. That's what I want to do.

Going to that level, a lot of guys get to the NFL, and they don't make a long career out of it. The NFL is very hard. One percent of college athletes make it to the NFL.

As a football player, as a kid and as a professional athlete the moment of playing in the Super Bowl and winning a Super Bowl, that's what you play your whole career for.

Win games. Win games in the playoffs. Win the Super Bowl. That's what it comes down to. The ultimate goal is to start off by winning the division and go from there. Those are the big goals.

Playing in the NFL was a dream come true.

I'm just happy and blessed to have the opportunity to go to the NFL.

A good season for me is going to the playoffs and making a run for the Super Bowl and having a good record.

I worked at the number one team in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and now also in England.

I've won a lot of trophies - like the FA Youth Cup and the reserves league a couple of times - but it would top it off to win the Premier League with the first team.