Brett Favre Quotes

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Brett Favre

Profession : Athlete

Birth : October 10, 1969

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

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Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

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So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

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

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Every game I've ever played, regardless if it was pre-season or Super Bowl, meant the same to me, and I laid it all on the line.

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I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.

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You have to play with the mentality that you are about to lose your job, and that they're going to talk about 'The Other Guy' first. You have to think, 'I want my name mentioned first.'

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I'm pretty boring really.

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It's been a wonderful career, I couldn't ask for anything more.

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I knew I needed surgery and I didn't want to have it and I ended up having it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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I've been pretty fortunate.

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