Brett Favre Quotes (213 Quotes)


    I was shocked, ... I really thought we had this ballgame.

    I've said this over the last several years It can happen to anyone. It really can. I'm not immune to it. I think that the organization and myself have a great relationship, and they can be honest with me because I've always been honest. But that could happen.

    When I left after the season, yeah, it was tough to be excited about football. But it's in my blood. As time has passed, I have forgotten a little about the 4-12 season and think more about the good times. If I decide to come back and play, that's really what I'm deciding to come back to -- the fun.

    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.

    I was able to do that quickly and avoid a sack. Things like that. Some of the plays that you don't notice, to me I'm able to notice. I'm still tired but I feel like I recover a little bit quicker.


    In my gut, I feel like they're OK, but with each minute that passes, I begin to wonder. This is one of those situations where I would love to do whatever I could to help a lot of people, but I don't even know where to start.

    Yeah, in hindsight, I wish I would have went to the other side, ... But it wasn't because of who it was.

    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.

    It's going to take a strong effort, for a long time.

    No one has given me any guidelines to how you handle a 3-11 season. I think as a quarterback, just like a head coach, you can only do so much, but you feel like you should be able to do more than everyone else. And it's bad enough as it is right now.

    Hey, I'll be throwing the ball come Sunday. To whom remains to be determined. I was never known for my accuracy anyway. I may be the only quarterback who yells 'Fore' when he makes a pass. But, as long as I can throw the ball 60 miles per hour, I can play quarterback. Those people that doubt my intentions to return next year are the same people who doubted my ability as an actor. And I proved them wrong with my sizzling performance as myself in There's Something About Mary .

    Would I have been able to make that throw last year Maybe. I probably would have taken that chance last year. Maybe missed by that much. I was hoping to gain that, make that throw (this year).

    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.

    I don't want to say that they're just happy to be there, but they're kind of trying to find their place and this is their opportunity to make it or break it. But for me, I'm trying to get this team in the end zone and win.

    I've tried my best not to analyze not only this season but a game like that the other night. I don't know if we can say the rest of the games this year have been embarrassing, but I think the other night was.

    I'd like to wait 'til training camp. But I know I have to make the decision in the next month for their sake.

    I didn't know how much I'd be committed (to playing and to the team) with everything else that had gone on. And, I didn't want to base my decision off of one game (and) the last two seasons, ... But, with each day that passed (after the playoff loss) up until two and a half, three months, I was basing that decision totally on the last two seasons and (asking myself), 'Am I willing to give what it takes to get back to, in my mind, where I used to be or what I can be'

    But you know, I know, it's not baseball, it's not basketball. You only play three hours a week. You spend all this time people think at home that I just show up on Sundays and we play. I'm here taking a damn nap here at lunch, spend all day and watch film at night. For three hours. And if it doesn't go your way, it's so disappointing all the time you've put into it.

    I wish I knew where I stood. If I had to pick right now and make a decision, I would say I am not coming back.

    It was nice to get this win, birthday or not. There's days when I wake up now, when I say, 'This is going to be a rough one.' You just have to fight through the pain.

    I don't know if I will play this year or not. . . . If I do play this year, it will be my last. There's no doubt about that.

    That's a bold statement. But what the hell, we hadn't really stopped them yet.

    I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it Time will tell.

    I think it comes down to a couple draft picks and luck, obviously, good luck, and very easily we could be sitting here and be totally different

    but I'm definitely not going to sit here and make excuses.


    To me, it's Super Bowl or bust, ... If we play the way we're capable of I think we have a legitimate shot.

    From the outside, you really wouldn't notice, but it may have been just five or six plays where I felt like I could have dodged a (defender) or made a throw, ... Last year, maybe I dodged a guy, but I was not able to make a throw, or made a throw and was not accurate. I wanted to have a little more stamina and within a 5-yard box be quicker.

    Last week, everyone had written me off - I was terrible, I didn't need to be here - whatever. But I knew my abilities, this team knew my abilities, Mike knew. None of them gave up on me. All last week I knew the people who count care about me. I just wanted to prove to them that I still had it.

    It is a business. And up to this point, we're 3-12. And from a business standpoint, wouldn't you think they're sitting there going, 'OK, if we're running a risk of this happening next year, we might as well save the money and put that money elsewhere for the future.'

    I'll throw it to whomever, whenever. I was not going to single out Fergie or anyone else and make it a point to throw it to him. It just so happened that (way).

    I'm going to take some time and get away from the season for a bit and then talk to people here in Green Bay and then we'll see.

    It's in my blood. I love to play the game.

    What did you guys waste a trip down here for Y'all brought the cold weather, too.

    Ron's not the most talkative person, ... You always wonder what he's thinking. But he always had a way of letting me know, telling me things he probably wouldn't tell other people. I've always felt indebted to him for obvious reasons and I saw something in myself that it didn't always seem like other people did. For someone to believe in me and give me a chance, he took a big gamble.

    I'd like to say I think we are better, but I don't know if we are. I don't make those decisions, never asked to. ... I know when we signed Reggie White (in 1993), we knew we were going to be better right away. We have to make a statement again.

    I guess at times I was blind to why I was not enjoying the game,

    When the dust settles where do we go from here Where do we start You can't call the local carpenter and get him to rebuild your house because his house is gone to,

    If I don't tell them by (today), what will they do, cut me

    Well, I've made that play before, ... (But) the workouts didn't hurt my ability to make it. The defense had played it well, that's for sure.

    Obviously, at that point, it was too late.

    It doesn't make my job quite as glamorous as it seems.

    I said, 'You know, Darrell, if I decide to come back, I feel like the last two or three years, I cheated myself - which obviously ends up cheating your teammates - as far as being in the best shape physically and mentally that you can possibly be in,'

    It could come down to some of the littlest things, what I'm willing to put myself through. I mean, if it was coming down to just games, I don't think nothing could pull me away from the games. I love to play. I love to play,

    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.

    The Green Bay Packers loaded the team plane with generators and emergency supplies. When we get to Nashville, there's going to be a guy who drives (the supplies) to Hattiesburg, (Miss.) ... From there, hopefully, we can disperse this even further south.

    No one is going to hand us anything, especially now,

    I probably slept two hours last night, and the whole time I slept, I had nightmares about should I go or should I stay If I go, what do I do If I don't go, how guilty will I feel for not being there

    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.

    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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