Brett Favre Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.
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Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.
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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.
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If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.
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I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired,'
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My intention... isn't to create controversy.
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Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.
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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.
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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.
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You can call it a miracle or a legend or whatever you want to. I just know that on that day, Brett Favre was larger than life.
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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.
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Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.
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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.
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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.'
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In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.
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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.
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I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.
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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.
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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.
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As you get older, you look at things differently.
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I'm pretty boring really.
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I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.