Top 40 Brett Favre Quotes

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

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

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

I’m proud of everything I’ve done.

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

I’m pretty boring really.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.’

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.

You’re only as good as your last pass.

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

As you get older, you look at things differently.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.