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.
BRETT FAVREThat’s kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that’s hasn’t happened.
More Brett Favre Quotes
-
-
In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it’s all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.
BRETT FAVRE -
I know I’m not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.
BRETT FAVRE -
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.
BRETT FAVRE -
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.
BRETT FAVRE -
I’ve always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.
BRETT FAVRE -
I’m thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.
BRETT FAVRE -
I’ve always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.
BRETT FAVRE -
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.
BRETT FAVRE -
I know it’s not a one man team win or lose.
BRETT FAVRE -
There wasn’t a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.
BRETT FAVRE -
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.
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 -
I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
BRETT FAVRE -
Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.
BRETT FAVRE -
I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
BRETT FAVRE -
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.
BRETT FAVRE -
My job is to throw passes and be a leader.
BRETT FAVRE -
That’s kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that’s hasn’t happened.
BRETT FAVRE -
There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.
BRETT FAVRE -
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.
BRETT FAVRE -
Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside.
BRETT FAVRE -
I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.
BRETT FAVRE -
I love doing what I do.
BRETT FAVRE -
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.
BRETT FAVRE -
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.
BRETT FAVRE -
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