Calvin Johnson

The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.

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.

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.

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.

When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.

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

Retired life's good, man.

I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.

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.

My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

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.'

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