I think every player should think that he’s a difference maker.
BRETT FAVREIt’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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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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If I’m going to play, it’s going to be 100-percent commitment.
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Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside.
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I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.
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As you get older, you look at things differently.
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Even in past years, when I wasn’t in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.
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You know I used to listen to music a lot more.
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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.
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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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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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I know I’m not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.
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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.
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It’s been a wonderful career, I couldn’t ask for anything more.
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That’s kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that’s hasn’t happened.
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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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Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.
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I’ve seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.
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Wisconsin’s a special place.
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I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
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I’ve always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.
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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.
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Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.
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You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it’s a tough loss, you’re down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it’s amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you’re like it never happened.
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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 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 job is to throw passes and be a leader.
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