Brett Favre Quotations

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.

There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can't do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that's not going to change.

Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

I think every player should think that he's a difference maker.

And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

I'm thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.

Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.

You're never guaranteed about next year. People ask what you think of next season, you have to seize the opportunities when they're in front of you.

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it's what you do with it, how you handle.

I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.

You have to play with the mentality that you are about to lose your job, and that they're going to talk about 'The Other Guy' first. You have to think, 'I want my name mentioned first.'

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

I know it's not a one man team win or lose.

It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.

The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.

I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.

I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.

I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.

In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Initially, I know that I handled it worse than she did and I think partly because I've always been... every bit of adversity I've faced up until the last year and a half is adversity I brought upon myself - or the opposing teams have given me.

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.

I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.

As you get older, you look at things differently.

I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.

I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.

That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.

There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

You know I used to listen to music a lot more.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

I don't really care what's going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.

As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she's probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.

The town, the team, it's a family. That has helped. For some people who have had to deal with some of the problems I have had to deal with don't have football as an out.

Well even before she was diagnosed with the cancer, I would have said that she was a lot tougher than me and most guys would probably say that about their wives and it's probably true in most cases.

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

You know, I've had my ups and downs.

I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.

I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know.

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

You're only as good as your last pass.

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn't deal with.

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

No one can go in, ... No one can come out. There's no cell phones working. There's no land phones working. Half the county is under water, from what I understand. . . . In my gut, I feel like they're okay. But with each minute that passes, I begin to wonder. . . . This is one of those situations where I would love to do whatever I could to help . . . but I don't even know where to start. It's tough to focus on anything right now because I'm very concerned.

No one is going to hand us anything, especially now,

Next thing they know, water is on top of them, ... My older brother, Scott, and our friend, Clark, were swimming in the house trying to get the kids. My brother, Jeff, has three kids. He was trying to get them up in the attic.

I'd like to play at least as much if not more than I did last week. Last week was not a good game. We all know that.

if we're too young, if we're not old enough or we're right in the middle.

She happened to stop a news van from Houston, of all places, ... The guy from Houston had just seen the interview I'd done yesterday. My mom stopped this van and said 'Hey, can you make a phone call?' knowing that he had satellite.

Most of those people are still there because they have nothing to go home to.

Guys just stepped up to the plate and hit home runs. It was fun to be in a game like that.

From the outside, you really wouldn't notice, but it may have been just five or six plays where I felt like I could have dodged a (defender) or made a throw, ... Last year, maybe I dodged a guy, but I was not able to make a throw, or made a throw and was not accurate. I wanted to have a little more stamina and within a 5-yard box be quicker.

But it tells you someone is one-on-one and not covered. If not for Sterling being hurt, who knows what would have happened, but we had to open it up, we had to find someone else and we did.

He had just a phenomenal year last year. I think anyone who has any football sense at all knows that these five games (are) no indication of what type of quarterback he is,

Had we gotten into the playoffs, I don't know if anybody would have wanted to play us. If we would have gotten in, I liked our chances. Who would have said that five weeks ago?

He may have been best player I've ever seen and certainly was the best I've ever played with or against,

My older brother, Scott, was swimming around the house trying to get the kids. My younger brother, Jeff, has three little kids. They were trying to get them up in the attic. My grandmother, who is almost 90, they were trying to get her up in the attic or on top of a washing machine or a counter or whatever. Fortunately, they all survived. But now, as bad as that was, the worst is yet to come.

My mom, two brothers, their families, my grandmother, my aunt and my uncle are all in a like a 25-square foot house with no power and a tree on top of it,

I said, 'You know, Darrell, if I decide to come back, I feel like the last two or three years, I cheated myself - which obviously ends up cheating your teammates - as far as being in the best shape physically and mentally that you can possibly be in,'

I said, 'Are you ready for Daddy to quit football?' She said, 'Yeah, I'm ready for you to quit playing football so you can live with us (Deanna and the two girls) full-time in Mississippi.'

Our house survived I say that because there are 50 people there,

Right now, the dust is settling and all you can do is think, 'Where do we go from here? Where do you start?' ... You can't call the local carpenter to come build your house. His house is gone, too.

I would love to go in. I thought about getting to Tennessee tonight and driving in with some supplies.

Mike had his mind made up Saturday, but we didn't know until Sunday. Until I went out there and took the first snap, you don't know. I might have just gone, 'I can't do it.' Once the newness wears off and the toughness wears off, 'I just can't do it.' And I was probably as immobile as I've ever been. I couldn't do anything.

We have to score points. We have to be aggressive, but we can't make mistakes,

We're always trying to find ways to lower interceptions and stuff. My nature, I'm aggressive. I'll take shots, I'll take chances; therefore, you have mistakes,

You have to believe you're great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn't because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I'm the best player in the league.

Most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.

With each game I play, with each season I play, I'm running out of chances... you're never guaranteed next year. You're never guaranteed the next game. You have to seize the opportunity when it's there in front of you.

If I were to make a list, I would include the interceptions, the sacks, the really painful losses. Those times when I've been down, when I've been kicked around, I hold on to those. In a way those are the best times I've ever had, because that's when I've found out who I am. And what I want to be.

Wisconsin's a special place.

It's all about chemistry. Talent alone won't get it done.

Every day is not perfect.

I've always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.