Calvin Johnson quotes:

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

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

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

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

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 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.

The goal every year is to win the Super Bowl, not just to get to the playoffs, not just to win a few games.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through.

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

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.'

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.

I am here to put out a positive athlete,

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

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