Brett Favre Quotes

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Brett Favre

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 10, 1969

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.

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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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As you get older, you look at things differently.

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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 out physically, but I think that was the case.

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I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

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Every day is not perfect.

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

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You're only as good as your last pass.

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

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Wisconsin's a special place.

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I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.

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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.

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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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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.

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