Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Favre

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

Well family is obviously the most important. There was a time when I thought football was the most important.

Brett Favre

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

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.

Brett Favre

In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

Brett Favre

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

Brett Favre

I love doing what I do.

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

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

I'd write over and over, 'I will not throw into coverage.'

Brett Favre

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

There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.

Brett Favre

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

Brett Favre

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

Brett Favre

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

Brett Favre

I've always been a Packer, always will be a Packer.

Brandon Marshall

If I wasn't playing football, I'd be a juvenile probation officer.

Brandon Marshall

Football is easy, it's not success. To me success is being a world changer. Football is my platform but not my purpose.

Brandon Marshall

Football is easy; I’ve done this since I was a baby. To me, that’s not success. Success to me is being a world changer…I say football is my platform, not my purpose. How can I use my platform to fulfill my purpose? I want people to say that he fulfilled his purpose.

Brandon Jacobs

The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.

Brandon Jacobs

I fought as a kid. But football is what kept me out of trouble. You could always fight, whether you're in trouble or not

Brandon Jacobs

I have a soft side that I like people to see. I'm not mean. That's just football. That's just the way you've got to go. You can't go into a game that is that violent and be soft. You can't be that way.

Archie Manning

I wish I’d played my whole career in flag football.

Jeff Mullins

We're here to go to college, ... Even playing football you have to have time management and know why you're where you are.

Ted Forrest

We're happy to have him. He's got a good understanding of the scheme ... plus, he's got a good football mind. He's very intelligent.

The only place for women in football is making the tea at half-time.

Art Modell

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries.

We're playing better football but we're just shooting ourselves in the foot.

Curtis Sliwa

We hope to get a foot patrol out. For a very small city, Newburgh has some severe and intense problems.

Jeremy Shockey

We didn't want this thing to be a distraction. It was totally under the radar. This is special for me. The organization showed they'd like me to retire with it. We can just toss around the football now and that makes it so much easier.

Charles Bukowski

Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.

Lovie Smith

We've seen improvement each day. And it shown, he's given us a taste of it each game that he's played lately the last two football games,

We've still got a lot of worked to do. We don't want to be a polished football team in week one, we want to be there at week 10.