Brett Favre Quotes on Life (9 Quotes)

To have tragedies in my life is no different than anyone else, ... It's just that mine are on TV. At times, it's a bit embarrassing and a little bit unfair to other people who suffer the same hardships. ... All I'm concerned about is the health not only of my family but everyone else's.

I found myself, probably over the last 24 hours, a couple times saying, 'Why me' or, 'Of all places . . . ' ... . . . But as quickly as that thought popped into my head -- it popped into my head probably more than I would like it to -- I try to remind myself of the things to be thankful for, which there are a lot. . . . . To have tragedies in my life is no different from anyone else. It's just that mine are on TV and in the papers and things like that. At times, it's a little embarrassing and it's a little bit unfair to people who suffer the same hardships because who cares about them So I try to remind myself of those people.

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.

In this case, I realize that, unlike when I was 22 years old, I realize now that football will not go on forever, it is a small part of your life.

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

But when you lose a family member or something tragic happens, that stays with you forever. You never get over it. Knowing that you have to deal with that for the rest of your life... Football is important, but not as important as you once thought it was.

If everything was going fine, if there was nothing wrong in my life, to me, that would be hard to handle, ... I mean, now, there's two things in my life helping these people and helping the Packers win.

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.

If you just handpick 10 people off the street, probably half of them had some type of tragedy in their life, ... The difference in my case is that everyone knows about it.