Calvin Johnson

Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness. ”

I've got nothing to be ashamed of. ”

I'm an honest guy. ”

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

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. ”