Brett Favre Quotes

Brett Favre talks candidly about team potential, fatigue, and the thrill of leading.

24 quotes

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

2. I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know.

3. With each game I play, with each season I play, I'm running out of chances... you're never guaranteed next year. You're never guaranteed the next game. You have to seize the opportunity when it's there in front of you.

4. I'm pretty boring really.

5. I'd like to think, eight years ago, I was pretty humble and modest. But I think, with each year, you get more modest, more humble, more appreciative. The off the field tragedies put things in better perspective, but life happens to everybody, and I think we all just try to do the best we can.

6. Yip cabbage on three!

7. I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired,'

8. 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.

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

10. I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

11. I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

12. I've always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. Wisconsin's a special place.

18. I've seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.

19. 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.

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

21. If I'm going to play, it's going to be 100-percent commitment.

22. 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.

23. Every day is not perfect.

24. You're only as good as your last pass.