1. “I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.” – Brett Favre
2. “I’m proud of everything I’ve done.” – Brett Favre
3. “I’m pretty boring really.” – Brett Favre
4. “I’ve always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.” – Brett Favre
5. “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.” – Brett Favre
6. “Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don’t.” – Brett Favre
7. “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.” – Brett Favre
8. “You’re only as good as your last pass.” – Brett Favre
9. “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.” – Brett Favre
10. “I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.” – Brett Favre
11. “I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.” – Brett Favre
12. “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.” – Brett Favre
13. “I know I’m not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.” – Brett Favre
14. “Maybe I’m old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.” – Brett Favre
15. “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.” – Brett Favre
16. “I don’t really care what’s going on I just care about getting my job done the best that I can possibly do and deal with the other things in my life that take a lot of time and a lot of thought.” – Brett Favre
17. “In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it’s all about money and it really leaves a sour taste in your mouth.” – Brett Favre
18. “Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.” – Brett Favre
19. “You have to believe you’re great. You have to have an air about you. My success wasn’t because I was a great talent, but because I wanted it more than anybody else. Every minute I step on that field, I want to prove I’m the best player in the league.” – Brett Favre
20. “My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she’s probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.” – Brett Favre
21. “My intention… isn’t to create controversy.” – Brett Favre
22. “I really believe this team has a lot of potential – whether it’s this year or in years to come, I don’t know.” – Brett Favre
23. “If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.” – Brett Favre
24. “I’ve always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.” – Brett Favre
25. “I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.” – Brett Favre
26. “It’s a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to… for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it’s a good escape.” – Brett Favre
27. “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.” – Brett Favre
28. “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.” – Brett Favre
29. “I know I can still play, but it’s like I told my wife, I’m just tired mentally. I’m just tired.” – Brett Favre
30. “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.” – Brett Favre
31. “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.” – Brett Favre
32. “If I’m going to play, it’s going to be 100-percent commitment.” – Brett Favre
33. “I don’t worry anymore about where’s the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn’t tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.” – Brett Favre
34. “I think every player should think that he’s a difference maker.” – Brett Favre
35. “I don’t need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.” – Brett Favre
36. “I knew I needed surgery and I didn’t want to have it and I ended up having it.” – Brett Favre
37. “Every day is not perfect.” – Brett Favre
38. “You know I used to listen to music a lot more.” – Brett Favre
39. “The good teams are good at what they do.” – Brett Favre
40. “There wasn’t a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.” – Brett Favre
41. “Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside.” – Brett Favre
42. “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.” – Brett Favre
43. “Yip cabbage on three!” – Brett Favre
44. “If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.” – Brett Favre
45. “If I were to make a list, I would include the interceptions, the sacks, the really painful losses. Those times when I’ve been down, when I’ve been kicked around, I hold on to those. In a way those are the best times I’ve ever had, because that’s when I’ve found out who I am. And what I want to be.” – Brett Favre
46. “The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.” – Brett Favre
47. “It’s all about chemistry. Talent alone won’t get it done.” – Brett Favre
48. “With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I’m running out of chances.” – Brett Favre
49. “I don’t need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.” – Brett Favre
50. “I accomplished so many things, so early in my career.” – Brett Favre
51. “Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it’s what you do with it, how you handle.” – Brett Favre
52. “There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can’t do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that’s not going to change.” – Brett Favre
53. “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.” – Brett Favre
54. “I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.” – Brett Favre
55. “As you get older, you look at things differently.” – Brett Favre
56. “Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.” – Brett Favre
57. “Even in past years, when I wasn’t in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.” – Brett Favre
58. “You know, I’ve had my ups and downs.” – Brett Favre
59. “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.” – Brett Favre
60. “I love doing what I do.” – Brett Favre
61. “Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.” – Brett Favre
62. “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.” – Brett Favre
63. “That’s kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that’s hasn’t happened.” – Brett Favre
64. “I’m thankful for all the things that this job has given me and my family. But probably the thing that I am most proud of throughout my career is that, not only myself, but my family and the people around me have just been regular people, which we are.” – Brett Favre
65. “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.” – Brett Favre
66. “I know it’s not a one man team win or lose.” – Brett Favre
67. “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.” – Brett Favre
68. “I’ve seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.” – Brett Favre
69. “I’ve seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.” – Brett Favre
70. “I’ve always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.” – Brett Favre
71. “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.” – Brett Favre
72. “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.” – Brett Favre
73. “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.” – Brett Favre
74. “It’s been a wonderful career, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” – Brett Favre
75. “In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I’m enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.” – Brett Favre