Brett Favre Quotes

My legs give out on me.

When you sit down and tell a GM, 'I don't know if I can give you everything' -- and I have -- that's usually the first ticket out of town.

it's hard to throw for 4,000 yards and 30 touchdowns in good shape or bad shape.

I turned around to look and he took the ball out of my hand, ... I wasn't scared of him. Believe me.

It's the hand we're dealt. We've put ourselves in this position, and we've got to find a way to get out of it.

It's hard to express in words how disappointed I am. I left it all on the field. I've never been 0-4, but it's a hand we've been dealt.

I hate to compare this to the tsunami. But in a small area, it was like that.

As bad as I hate to admit it, age is working against me, as it works against everyone, ... But, if you can help it, you can't afford to be slow. Not one step.

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.

I was sick to my stomach and my head aching. But I threw for two touchdowns.

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

Hey, ... that was a hell of job.

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

I did hear that. I was a bit embarrassed, to be honest with you. But I did appreciate it. Our fans have been so supportive of the team, even during this tough season.

I think my hope is it doesn't get to 1-8, ... If it does, from a personal standpoint I would be playing for pride.

I hope the guys in this locker room never get used to losing. At 0-3, this is new to me.

Whether we have a winning record this year, whether we go to the playoffs, whether we turn this thing around or not, I don't know, ... But if you just believe in what you're doing and believe in the guys who have to step up and hope that they believe in themselves, anything can happen.

My older brother, Scott, was swimming around the house trying to get the kids. My younger brother, Jeff, has three little kids. They were trying to get them up in the attic. My grandmother, who is almost 90, they were trying to get her up in the attic or on top of a washing machine or a counter or whatever. Fortunately, they all survived. But now, as bad as that was, the worst is yet to come.

Right now, the dust is settling and all you can do is think, 'Where do we go from here Where do you start' ... You can't call the local carpenter to come build your house. His house is gone, too.

But it tells you someone is one-on-one and not covered. If not for Sterling being hurt, who knows what would have happened, but we had to open it up, we had to find someone else and we did.

Obviously, at that point, it was too late.

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.

That's kind of how I approach life and football why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

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.

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.