Calvin Johnson Quotes

Living in Baltimore at age 11, I was still not single-focused on tennis. I still played other sports. It was becoming a bigger part of my life, but it was still mainly my summer hobby.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.

In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.

Through SCP Auctions, the Garvey family will also continue to share our great love for baseball by donating time and dollars to youth baseball programs.

I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

While swimming was always a spotlight sport, I was, if you will, sort of present at the creation when gymnastics became the new star lead-off hitter.

I really have a love and passion for football. I enjoy basketball, but it's not something I love. You have to let things go that are not for you.

I didn't start boxing until I was 18 but I believe that is a big advantage now. If you start too young, it's easy to become distracted.

I didn't do any football stuff when I was a kid... Mostly baseball and basketball the whole time. That's all I did. I played football starting in seventh grade. As I got older, I started playing a little bit more. Then in high school, I really fell in love with it.

I only started playing top football when I was 17 and a half.

I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.

I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.

Ever since I was a young kid, I've been playing for an academy with scouts all over the world that are looking for top players to come in.

Kids will never go under the radar any more because there are so many scouts at grassroots level. Also, if you come out of a professional academy, it's a very lonely place for a child and some kids don't bounce back from it.

I think it wouldn't be wise to lose the best years of my sports career at university.

I think the sport needs the help to continue to motivate athletes.

The heart wants who the heart wants. We can't help that.

I don't want no better book than what your face is.

Hate me if you want to, love me if you can.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.