Brett Favre

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

“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.”

“You're only as good as your last pass.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“You know I used to listen to music a lot more.”

“Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.”

“I've been pretty fortunate.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I, most talented players don't always succeed. Some don't even make the team. It's more what's inside.”

“I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.”

“Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.”

“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.”

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

“It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.”