Brett Favre
Brett Favre
Brett Lorenzo Favreis a former American football quarterback who spent the majority of his career with the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He was a 20-year veteran of the NFL, having played quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers, New York Jets, and Minnesota Vikings. Favre was the first quarterback in NFL history to pass for 500 touchdowns, throw for over 70,000 yards, over 6,000 completions, and over 10,000 pass attempts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth10 October 1969
CityGulfport, MS
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
There's no airport. Pretty much everyone is better off staying put.
This is really a lot like the tsunami on a smaller scale, ... Rebuilding is going to take not weeks, not months, not years. Two years? No. Ten years? Maybe.
They have nowhere to go. There's no power. When they will get power? They're saying two months, ... If you're first in the line, it may be a week. If you're last, it may be two months. Where they start and where they finish, I don't know.
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?
Mike had his mind made up Saturday, but we didn't know until Sunday. Until I went out there and took the first snap, you don't know. I might have just gone, 'I can't do it.' Once the newness wears off and the toughness wears off, 'I just can't do it.' And I was probably as immobile as I've ever been. I couldn't do anything.
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.
We're always trying to find ways to lower interceptions and stuff. My nature, I'm aggressive. I'll take shots, I'll take chances; therefore, you have mistakes,
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.
Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.
I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.
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.
There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.