Top 50 Drew Brees Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don’t worry about a week or a month from now – just think about one day at a time.”

— Drew Brees

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2. “Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity.”

— Drew Brees

3. “Never let anyone in life tell you that you can’t have something that you are willing to work for.”

— Drew Brees

4. “You are either getting better or getting worse, but you are never staying the same.”

— Drew Brees

5. “You can always be a little bit better.”

— Drew Brees

6. “God, I know that if you bring me to it, you will bring me through it. I know you have a plan, but quite honestly I don’t see it right now. But I know it’s there. I know I have to believe. I know I need to have faith. I have to trust you. And I do trust you. But it’s hard right now.”

— Drew Brees

7. “Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.”

— Drew Brees

8. “I expect to win out there.”

— Drew Brees

9. “Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?”

— Drew Brees

10. “We’ve got something special going here. We want to keep it going. You don’t have many opportunities like this, and the window of opportunity for us is now.”

— Drew Brees

11. “I’m a very modest person.”

— Drew Brees

12. “I realized I could focus on my mistakes and feel sorry for myself, or I could learn from those mistakes and use them as motivation to come back stronger.”

— Drew Brees

13. “It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to know me and let her know I was at least a decent guy and to give me a shot. And here we are, we’ve been married seven years.”

— Drew Brees

14. “And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.”

— Drew Brees

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15. “I’m not just trying to be a good game manager. I’m trying to be great.”

— Drew Brees

16. “I expect to make big plays. And when I don’t, I’m upset about it.”

— Drew Brees

17. “There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can’t measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.”

— Drew Brees

18. “I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.”

— Drew Brees

19. “I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.”

— Drew Brees

20. “I know I can go out there and play much better than I did yesterday. But to come out with a win is key.”

— Drew Brees

21. “I can’t get through the gate. The gate is narrow.”

— Drew Brees

22. “My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.”

— Drew Brees

23. “The truth is, you don’t learn much from winning, but losing can make you a lot stronger.”

— Drew Brees

24. “I don’t know about voodoo, but I believe in destiny.”

— Drew Brees

25. “I’m a very modest person. But I’m also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I’m gonna have some swagger, I’m gonna have some cockiness.”

— Drew Brees

26. “Forget all the doubters. Forget all the critics. Is there satisfaction in proving them wrong? Sure, but I don’t want to give those people the gratification of even dwelling on their words that long. There’s a motivator much more powerful than doubt. I play in honor of those who believe in me.”

— Drew Brees

27. “You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.”

— Drew Brees

28. “It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn’t trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.”

— Drew Brees

29. “Each and every year I feel like I’ve gotten a little bit better and that’s always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better.”

— Drew Brees

30. “But I’ve found that when you start talking to people, everybody’s family has something they’ve dealt with. Every family has issues and is a little dysfunctional. It’s not whether you will have problems within your family; it’s how you handle those difficulties when they come your way.”

— Drew Brees

31. “The Madden NFL franchise holds a special place in popular culture and the cover is a coveted position for players all over the league. I’m honored to be the first cover athlete chosen by Madden NFL fans and it’s a great way to cap off an amazing year for the Saints and the city of New Orleans.”

— Drew Brees

32. “I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it’s just wipe and pull the flap over.”

— Drew Brees

33. “We always try to mix it up-three-step drop, five-step drop, seven-step drop, naked bootleg. We spread out all these kinds of things to keep the defensive pass rush unbalanced.”

— Drew Brees

34. “We all understand what we signed up for, but then again, you don’t want this to be a game that puts people in wheelchairs at age 40.”

— Drew Brees

35. “The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is what it is, but I look at it as a challenge.”

— Drew Brees

36. “I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.”

— Drew Brees

37. “I know Andy Roddick’s probably tired about me talking about how many times I beat him when we were kids.”

— Drew Brees

38. “I get people stopping me on the street like twenty times a day, telling me how great it makes them feel and how it just helps them to go about their day and rebuild their lives. It means a tremendous amount.”

— Drew Brees

39. “I love the Cowboys in the early 90s. That was their heyday, winning all those Super bowls. Troy Aikman was a person I looked up to.”

— Drew Brees

40. “I’m just feeling like it was meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his life, we won a Super Bowl Championship.”

— Drew Brees

41. “It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.”

— Drew Brees

42. “When you care about a guy beyond just the field, that’s when the chemistry becomes really special.”

— Drew Brees

43. “I don’t believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It’s not about height.”

— Drew Brees

44. “There’s not anything, I don’t think, that I can do or accomplish.”

— Drew Brees

45. “I have a feeling that when you’re on the cover, they supe up all your abilities in the game to a pretty high level. I’m excited to see what that equates to, like if I can throw the ball 100 yards in the air or something.”

— Drew Brees

46. “The only team that believed in me was the Saints, and I feel like I owe them a great debt of gratitude. I want to give them what they saw in me-a guy who could lead this team to a championship.”

— Drew Brees

47. “I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.”

— Drew Brees

48. “Four years ago, who ever thought this would have happened?”

— Drew Brees

49. “We had a saying that the fun stops at one.”

— Drew Brees

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50. “It’s my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays.”

— Drew Brees