Brett Favre Quotes

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

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

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.'

I've been pretty fortunate.

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

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.

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

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

You're only as good as your last pass.

Every day is not perfect. You have your bad days and good days just like anyone else. You do not want to talk to people sometimes. It is normal.

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

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.

As you get older, you look at things differently.

My intention ... isn't to create controversy.

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.

The good teams are good at what they do.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I never thought I would see it. I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm not saying it didn't happen. I don't know. There's a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don't handle it as well. I'm not saying it's right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I'm not saying it's wrong. It's just the way it is.

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.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

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

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

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

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

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

I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.

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

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

I'm pretty boring really.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.

I'm not perfect.

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

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.