Quotes by Brett Favre

About Brett Favre:

Brett Lorenzo Favre is a retired American football quarterback who spent the majority of his career with the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He was a 20-year veteran of the NFL, having played quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons (1991), Green Bay Packers (1992–2007), New York Jets (2008), and Minnesota Vikings (2009–2010). Favre is the only quarterback in NFL history to throw for over 70,000 yards, over 6,000 completions, and over 10,000 pass attempts.
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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.

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

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.

Brett Favre

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.

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

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.

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

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.

Brett Favre

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.

Brett Favre

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.

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

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.

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

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 ...

Brett Favre

Every day is not perfect.

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

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.

Brett Favre

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.

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

Author Bio

  • NameBrett Favre
  • DescriptionAmerican football quarterback
  • AliasesThe Prophet
  • BornOctober 10, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionSportsperson; NASCAR Team Owner; Gridiron Football Player