Brett Favre Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Wisconsin's a special place.

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

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.

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

Every day is not perfect.

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

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

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

I'm pretty boring really.

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

You're only as good as your last pass.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The good teams are good at what they do.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love doing what I do.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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