Top 70 Brett Favre Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “As you get older, you look at things differently.”

— Brett Favre

2. “Maybe I’m old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.”

— Brett Favre

3. “If I’m going to play, it’s going to be 100-percent commitment.”

— Brett Favre

4. “Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.”

— Brett Favre

5. “Every day is not perfect. You have your bad days and good days just like anyone else. You do not want to talk to people sometimes. It is normal.”

— Brett Favre

6. “Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.”

— Brett Favre

7. “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

8. “Yip cabbage on three!”

— Brett Favre

9. “You’re only as good as your last pass.”

— Brett Favre

10. “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

11. “I’ve seen a lot of people jump on and off my bandwagon.”

— Brett Favre

12. “Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it’s what you do with it, how you handle.”

— Brett Favre

13. “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

14. “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

15. “Every day is not perfect.”

— Brett Favre

16. “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

17. “The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.”

— Brett Favre

18. “I know I’m not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.”

— Brett Favre

19. “I think every player should think that he’s a difference maker.”

— Brett Favre

20. “I consider adversity being good sometimes you know.”

— Brett Favre

21. “Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don’t.”

— Brett Favre

22. “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

23. “I don’t need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career.”

— Brett Favre

24. “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

25. “It’s all about chemistry. Talent alone won’t get it done.”

— Brett Favre

26. “I’ve always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set.”

— Brett Favre

27. “If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.”

— Brett Favre

28. “Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside.”

— Brett Favre

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

32. “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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “I’m proud of everything I’ve done.”

— Brett Favre

36. “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

37. “Even in past years, when I wasn’t in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.”

— Brett Favre

38. “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

39. “I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.”

— Brett Favre

40. “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

41. “There wasn’t a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.”

— Brett Favre

42. “I think my stubbornness, hardheadedness and stupidity is what has allowed me to play for 20 years.”

— Brett Favre

43. “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

44. “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

45. “I’d write over and over, ‘I will not throw into coverage.’”

— Brett Favre

46. “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.”

— Brett Favre

47. “It’s been a wonderful career, I couldn’t ask for anything more.”

— Brett Favre

48. “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

49. “I knew I needed surgery and I didn’t want to have it and I ended up having it.”

— Brett Favre

50. “Wisconsin’s a special place.”

— Brett Favre