Calvin Johnson Quotes

I love when people try to be physical with me. They think that's the way to try to guard me and to get physical with me. I use that to my advantage.

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

Which suggests something about media and war: it's not just that events happen and the media documents and presents them. There is a third element: what the public is ready to accept, what the public wants to know.

Obama's people will all often complain about how trivial and silly the media is, but there's no president who's probably benefited from this sort of trivialness or superficial nature as President Obama.

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

The old newspaper adage, 'If it bleeds, it leads,' is as true today as it was a century ago.

I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

It’s always difficult for a President to explain his policies through the filter of the media and the crises of the day.

The news media more and more considered the politicians to be props in their entertainment shows.

Those bastards [the press] can rip a single page out of the Bible, and if they play it right, they can make Jesus Christ sound like the devil.

The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.

By choice, polls validate the media’s filtered view of the world.

Oftentimes the … media only partially quote what politicians say. This has prevented the public from understanding my true intentions. So now I am sending messages through Facebook and other networks directly to the public.

Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

We want to create a problem for the defense, a moment of indecision as they figure out how they want to play against whatever formation we may show. We get a slight edge this way. Also, we create the opportunity for a defense to make more mistakes.

I have been in office for many years, and let me tell you, many times I have hated what the press has said about me.

I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.

I get the headlines for being slick and different things like that - which is part of my game - but it's just amazing to me that a lot of times, the people don't see the other things that go on in that ring. But a lot of times, when my opponents figure it out, the fight is over. It's too late.

Surely, AP or the coaches are all aware everybody has agendas. Anybody who's on TV has one. You know, that's viewership and ratings and those kinds of things.

Your rivals study the way you play and find a tactic to counteract your strengths.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

I've taken my beatings and learned how to get around and succeed against the big guys.

People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.